Comparative Slavery Course
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996
From: E. Wayne Carp
Subject: Comparative Slavery query
I am going to teach a course on comparative slavery within Atlantic American societies from Columbus through Abolition, 1492-1888. Does anyone know of a textbook suitable for students on the subject? I am thinking of something along the lines of Gary Nash's _Red, White, and Black_.
E. Wayne Carp
Pacific Lutheran University
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996
From: Doug Deal
Subject: Comparative Slavery - 3 responses
Doug Deal writes:
I don't think there is any single book (in print) that fits the bill, but you might consider using Peter Kolchin's recent SLAVERY along with something like Herbert Klein's AFRICAN SLAVERY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (OUP, 1986).
Doug Deal
History/SUNY-Oswego
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Patrick Rael writes:
Two suggestions: Michael L. Conniff and Thomas J. Davis, _Africans in the Americans: A History of the Black Diaspora_ (NYC: St. Martin's Press, 1994) is a possible start. It is fairly elementary (clearly intended as a text on this topic), and has the expected problems with balancing multiple experiences versus central threads (in this case sacraficing much detail of diverse local experiences).
Try also Philip Curtin, _The Plantation Complex_, which is an extremely lucid and concise series of lectures, and ties up many issues nicely. It is so strong, in fact, that you may want to keep it to yourself, and use it to build lectures on!
Good luck,
Patrick Rael
Bowdoin College
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Leslie Schwalm writes:
Concerning possible texts for a comparative slavery course: John Thornton's *Africa and Africans In the Making of the Atlantic World* offers an excellent overview of the Atlantic world through 1680; another work, more textbook-like in its format and extending through the abolition of slavery, would be Conniff and Davis' *Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora*.
Leslie Schwalm
University of Iowa
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996
From: David Herr
Subject: Comparative Slavery
I suggest Orlando Patterson's _Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study_ Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982
S. Hanks
Northwestern State Univ. of La.
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