HIST 319M Slavery in Latin America

Approximately 93% of the Africans taken to the Americas through the transAtlantic slave trade ended up in the Caribbean and Latin America.

TTh 2:00pm-3:15pm | Tawes 0207 | Fall 2023

We will explore the origins, dynamics, and challenges to slavery in the region, centering the African and African-descended peoples who built colonial societies and early modern capitalism. We will pay special attention to the racial ideologies, gender relations, and the forms of resistance that characterized slavery in Latin America. 

This course also addresses material in the following Undergraduate Fields of Specialization:

• Empires and Colonialism
• Economies, Labor, and Capitalism
• Africa and the African Diaspora
• Global Interaction and Exchange