SEMESTER ONE

26 September

Introduction

PART 1:

SLAVERY

3 October

Slave Society in the 1820s.
No Presentation

10 October

British Society and the Pro-Free-Labour Argument
Presentation: Michael Walsh.

17 October

Atlantic Abolitionism
Presentation: Anna Scholtz and Holly Clay

24 October

The Jamaica Rebellion of 1831
Presentation: Amy Lovell and Sally Jones

31 October

Envisaging Emancipation
Presentation: Joanne Hall and Sophie Colyer

7 November

Library Visit: No class this week.

You must have met with me to agree the topic for your first essay by now.

PART 2:

APPRENTICESHIP

14 November

Apprenticeship in Practice
No Presentation

21 November

Magistrates, Planters, and Apprentices
Presentation: James Jenkins and Kate Ross

28 November

Antigua, Bermuda, Cayman Islands: Colonies Without an Apprenticeship Phase
Presentation: Polly Wheldon and Melissa Bunyard

You must hand in a bibliography and brief outline of your first essay by now.

5 December

Apprenticeship in Crisis and Abolished
Presentation: Becky Hughes

Week of 11 December

Discussion and co-critique of student work in progress.

Because I am giving a paper in London on December 11, I will not be able to be here for our regular meeting on 12 December. The meeting this week will be rescheduled for a time to suit students.

You must have completed a rough draft of at least part of your essay by now.

15 January, 4pm:

Deadline for handing in 1^st extended essay.

SEMESTER TWO

PART 3:

THE POST-EMANCIPATION COLONIES

30 January

Comparing Emancipations

6 February

Indentured Labour

13 February

Peasant Production and Free Villages
Presentation: Amy and ?

20 February

Wage Labour and the Share System
Presentation: Polly and James

27 February

Post-emancipation Social and Political Protest

You must have met with me to agree the topic for your second essay by now.

6 March

Reconstructing Religion
Presentation: Kate and Becky

13 March

Reconstructing Gender and Family 
Presentation: Joanne and Michael

PART 4:

POST-EMANCIPATION BRITAIN

20 March

Slavery, Apprenticeship, and Abolition as Tropes in Other Controversies.
Presentation: Anna and Melissa

You must hand in a bibliography and brief outline of your second essay by now.

BREAK

24 April

Discussion and co-critique of student work in progress.

You must have completed a penultimate draft of your essay by now.

25 April

25 April Optional trip to Wilberforce House, Hull (Museum on slavery and abolition), with students from HIS 234.
Meet at 8.45am, place tba. Cost £5.

1 May

Abolitionism and its Opponents after British Abolition

PART 5

COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

8 May

Emancipation in Haiti, the US South, and Cuba.

15 May

Optional meeting to review the year’s work.

18 May, 4pm

Deadline for handing in second extended essay.

Assessment Period (time to be announced):

3-hour examination: 2 essays (each 33 1/3 %) plus documentary commentary questions (total 33 1/3%).