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News: If you are interested in the Liberated Africans in Brazil, Cuba, and Atlantic Africa, note this upcoming talk in week 8 by Jake Subryan Richards on his new book, The Bonds of Freedom. This talk will take place right after our class on Wednesday of week 8.

Class PPT

Seminar questions:

• What was the longer history of slavery and slaving in Brazil and Cuba? How was it different/ similar in each place by the early decades of the nineteenth century?
• How did slavery intersect with other major political developments - Brazilian independence and statebuilding? new forms of Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century and eventual independence movements?
• What was life like for enslaved people - in cities, in the countryside? Did forms of resistance or negotiation look different or similar?
• What areas became the centres of enslaved population over the century? When did the Atlantic trade end in each location and what replaced it?
• From your wider reading, what approaches do you think historians have taken to writing about more than one country? How are you going about this for your essays?

Class prep:

FIRST: Please take 5 mins to think about a tentative question or topic for the second long essay (due after the end of the course). We will consider these ideas together in class.

NEXT:

Brush up on your general knowledge of Brazil/Cuba history: Either: re-read , especially chapter 4, or: watch one of these 1-hr episodes:

Henry Louis Gates Jr, Black in Latin America: either: OR

NEXT: if you can,: choose EITHER:

Thomas Skidmore, , "Revolt, Consolidation, and War, 1830-1870"

OR:

(Please note this is an older - though still classic - book, and it may contain outdated racial and other language.)

Further reading:

Bergad, Laird W. The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Josep Fradera, The Imperial Nation: Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish and American Empires, transl. Ruth Mackay, Princeton University Press, 2018, especially  

Marquese, Rafael, and T芒mis Parron. Slavery & Politics: Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850. Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016.

Daniel Rood, , OUP 2017

Cowling, Camillia Conceiving Freedom: Women of Colour, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro, University of North Carolina Press 2013 (especially the introduction)

Graden, Dale Disease, Resistance and Lies: The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014.