HS 406 - Transatlantic Slave Sites: Study Tour

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Before and after enslaved Africans were transported to the New World, Africans were transported and sold in the Old World. This course includes tutorials and on-site learning, research, and discussion of historic locations throughout the Atlantic World that functioned as key ports in the transatlantic trade in African peoples and in slave-produced goods. It bears witness to "traces" of the African presence from the past and makes observations of distinct African-diasporic communities that exist today. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Additional costs may be incurred. IAF/IU