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School of Letters Department of Humanities History and Geography Course Occidental History Major Major (Credit 1) Intended Year: Intended School: |
European History (Seminar VIII)A
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Numbering Code: LET-HUM2445J Course Code: 2026 FallTerm weekly Mon2 Ito Classroom E/J科目 (日本語, English) |
| Course Overview |
In this course, we will examine how racial slavery has been understood in the development of early American history from multiple perspectives. As is well known, a system of slavery that brutally exploited Africans as a labor force was introduced into the Americas from the sixteenth century onward, but the British North American colonies after the late seventeenth century were distinctive in that this system was transformed into “racial slavery.” How did the practice of marking off particular groups under the category of “race” and transmitting enslaved status hereditarily become established and institutionalized? How did it shape economic activity and social order in the British North American colonies, and in what ways did it orient the formation of the United States that would later emerge? In this course, we will explore these questions with reference to recent debates in the scholarly literature. |
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