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Syllabus
(NOTE:
all assignments listed twice
below. Once on the day assigned, and then again in ITALICS
on the day due)
Thursday,
Sept. 4th
Introductuctions
Assigned:
Readings:Kevin
Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy,
Chapter 1; "Ghana's Trapped
Slaves" from the BBC
Writing:
Questions
Thursday,
Sept. 11th
due: Kevin
Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy,
Chapter 1; "Ghana's Trapped
Slaves" from the BBC; Questions
Readings:
Kojo Dei, "The
Social and Historical Context of Slavery in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Writing:questions
Thursday,
Sept. 18th
all students must pay $45 for
class materials by this date
due:
Kojo Dei, "West African Slavery",
questions
CLASS
OUT 20 MINUTES EARLY TODAY TO ALLOW EXTRA READING TIME
assigned:
Readings:
Basil Davidson, The African Slave Trade, pp. 11 - 49;
Thorton, p. 36 - 40; Curtin, 188 -191
Writing:
Note Taking Exercises
Thursday,
Sept. 25th
due:
Basil Davidson, The African Slave Trade, pp. 11 - 49,
Thorton,
p. 36 - 40; Curtin, 188 -191; questions
assigned:
Readings:
Readings from Problems in World
History: The Atlantic Slave Trade
1.
David Brion Davis, "Sugar and Slavery from the Old
to the New World" (pp. 14 - 23)
2. Mungo
Park, "West Africa in the 1790's" (pp. 32 - 38)
3. P.E.H.
Hair, "African Narratives of Enslavement" (pp.
38 - 44)
4. Joseph
Miller, "West Central Africa" (pp. 45 - 51)
5. John
Thorton, "Warfare and Slavery" (pp. 55 - 63)
6. John
Thoton, "Commerce between Europeans and Africans"
(pp. 48 - 53)
Adanggaman
Directed by: Roger Gnoan M'Bala
Starring: Rasmane Ouedraogo, Albertine N'Guessan,
Ziable Honoré Goore Bi and Bintou Bakayoko
Language: In Bambara, Baule and French with
English subtitles
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Thursday,
Oct. 2nd
due: Readings
from Problems in World History: The Atlantic Slave Trade, questions
Class Film:
From the Ivory Coast director Roger
Gnoan M'Bala, Adanggaman
assigned:
essay #1
Thursday,
Oct. 9th
due:
essay 1
| In
class we will look at Captain Esek Hopkins' account book
from the 1765 - 6 voyage of the slaving ship The Sally,
and discuss how historians might marshall evidence from
documents of this sort to analyze the slave trade. |
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assigned:
Readings:
The Diligent, A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade,
pp. 145 -196
Writings:
Questions
Thursday,
Oct. 16th
due:
The Diligent, pp. 145 -196, and questions
assigned:
readings:
The Diligent, pp. 223 - 255, pp. 268 - 292; writing:
questions
Thursday,
Oct. 23rd
due:
The Diligent, pp. 223 - 255, pp. 268 - 292, questions
IMPORTANT
CLASS
MEETS IN THE 4th FLOOR COMPUTER LAB, 9:40 - 10:50. BECAUSE
WE WILL BE SHOWING YOU HOW TO USE THE SLAVE VOYAGE CD-ROM
DATABASE THAT WILL THE BASIS FOR YOUR HOMEWORK, IT IS
ESSENTIAL THAT YOU COME TO CLASS ON TIME!!!
WE WILL NOT PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION FOR STUDENTS
WHO COME LATE!!!
More
on this CD-ROM Database from the W. E. B. Du Bois
Institute for Afro-American Research
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Assigned:
writings:
answer the questions regarding
slave revolts using the CD-ROM
Database. (brief
refresher technical instructions on doing searches with the
database; much longer refresher
in pdf format -- requires Adobe Reader. (Click here
to download if you do not have Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat
installed on your computer.)
Thursday,
Oct. 30th
due:
questions using the CD-ROM
Database.
Assigned:
readings:
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,
written by himself (1788), p. 33 - 58; 165 - 182 (note:
the entire text can be found on your Encarta CD)
writings:
questions
Thursday,
Nov. 6th
due:
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written
by himself (1788), p. 33 - 58; 165 - 182, questions
in
class exercise: "The Terrible Transformation: From
Servants to Slaves in Virginia"
assigned:
| But
I don't speak Ibibio! How do you expect me to read Duke's
diary in the original?
Antera
Duke wrote in a creolized version of English that's surprisingly
comprehensible to modern speakers of English. That Duke
and other slave merchants in Calabar wrote in a form of
English is not surprising; as one historian has written,
"African traders arranged to send their sons to England
for further education, often at the encouragement of the
English traders. A group of Liverpool traders reported:
'It has always been the Practice of Merchants and Commanders
of Ships trading to Africa, to encourage the Natives to
send their Children to England, as it not only conciliates
their Friendship and softens their Manners, but adds greatly
to the Security of the Trader, which answers the Purposes
both of Interest and Humanity."." (Sparks, Randy
J., Two Princes of Calabar: An Atlantic Odyssey from Slavery
to Freedom. The William and Mary Quarterly 59.3 (2002) |
writing:
Essay #2, building upon your small
group work with the in
class exercise.
Thursday,
Nov. 13th
Due:
Essay
#2, building upon your small group work with the
in
class exercise.
In-Class
work with the Diary of Antera Duke, an Efik slave-trading resident
of Old Calabar, who wrote the diary between 1785 and 1788. We
will work with both the original and a modern English version
by A. W. Wilkie and D. Simmons
Assigned:
Readings: Antera Duke's Diary, very short
reading on Calabar and Efik culture.
Writings:
questions on Duke's Diary
Thursday,
Nov. 20th
due:
Antera Duke's Diary, very short reading
on Calabar and Efik culture, questions
on Duke's Diary
assigned:
thesis statement for essay #3, outline
for essay #3. THESIS STATEMENTS
AND OUTLINES MUST BE E-MAILED
TO PROF. UMBACH BY MIDNIGHT DECEMBER 1st (Monday)
| NOTE
WELL:
STUDENTS WHO DO NOT E-MAIL THESE
ITEMS BY THE FIRST OF DECEMBER WILL HAVE THEIR FINAL ESSAY
GRADES REDUCED BY 20%. NO KIDDING! |
Thursday,
Nov. 27th
NO
CLASS!
Monday,
December 1st
due:e-mailed
thesis statements and outlines by midnight
Thursday,
December 4th
due:
nothing as you passed in your thesis statements and outlines
in on December 1st.
short
film in class: PBS's Liberia
Assigned:
readings:
from the MacMillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery: "Islam,""East
Africa,"; "History of a small
slave buried alive, or filial love: (Swema’s narrative
of enslavement in East Africa," from the New York
Times, "Africa's Lost Tribe Discovers
American Way'
writings: questions on swema
Writings: questions on Swema; revise
your thesis and outline, make an apointment with the writing
center for sometime between Dec. 11th and Dec.18 to go over
your rough draft of essay #3 (final due 12/18) with a mentor.
BE SURE TO GET THE MENTOR TO COMPLETE THIS
FORM THAT YOU MUST ATTACH TO YOUR FINAL PAPER. NOTE
OUR WARNING ON DECEMBER 18th.
Thursday,
December 11th
LAST DAY OF
CLASS
due: questions
on Swema; revised thesis and outline,
make an apointment with the writing center for sometime between
Dec. 11th and Dec.18 to go over your rough draft of essay
#3 (final due 12/18)
Discuss essays in class
Short film in class about the Mahdi revolt
Assigned:
Rough Draft in time for your meeting with writing tutor
Final Draft by the 12/18.
Thursday,
December 18th
FINAL PAPER DUE BY 2 PM!
| NOTE
WELL:
STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTACH A REPORT
FROM THE WRITING CENTER ADDRESSING THE MEETING WITH
A WRITING TUTOR REGARDING THE ROUGHT DRAFT WILL
NOT GET CREDIT FOR THE FINAL PAPER |
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