Environmental Histories of Slavery and Freedom
Seminar Questions
- What connections are historians drawing between slavery and environmental history?
- How did enslavers and enslaved interpret or 鈥榣ive鈥� the environment differently?
- How might natural or built environmental features become tools of resistance?
- How might the sources used by environmental historians help shed light on enslaved lives?
Readings - choose 1-2:
- Karl Offen, "" in , eds. Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews, CUP, 2018
- Yuko Miki, ch 5, "Fleeing into Slavery."
- Kevin Dawson, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), Introduction (or whichever chapters take your interest)
- David Silkenat, (OUP 2022), Introduction
Further reading
- Reinaldo Funes,
- Oscar de la Torre, (UNC Press, 2018), chapter 2, "Killing the Big Snake: Myth and History in the Trombetas River" (and the intro for context if you can)
- Bethan Fisk, Black Catholic Worlds: Religious Geographies of Eighteenth-Century Afro-Colombia. CUP 2025.
- Louis Perez, Jr.
- Claudia Leal, , 2018.
- Walter Johnson,
- Sherry Johnson (UNC Press, 2014)