Follow the links on this page to access handouts distributed at the lectures and films, plus selected quotations, all in printable rtf format.

This page will be updated after each lecture.

 Lecture Notes

Quotes from Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2 handout: The Europe and American Contexts

Lecture 3 handout: The African Context

Lecture 4 handout: Why Slavery?

Lecture 5 handout: The Impact of Atlantic Slavery on Europe and the Americas

Lecture 6 handout: The Impact of Atlantic Slavery on Africa

Lecture 7 handout: What was it like to be a slave?

Lecture 8 handout front and back: The plantation: a social world?

Lecture 9 handout: African into African American Cultures

Lecture 10 handout: Rebellion and Resistance

Lecture 11 handout: Whiteness and white people in slave societies

Lecture 12 handout: Free people of colour in slave societies

Lecture 13 handout: The Contradictory impact of the Enlightenment

Lecture 14 handout: From St. Domingue to Haiti

 

Film Handouts 

 Quilombo

Roots

Beloved

The Last Supper

Daughters of the Dust