#  HL90L: Stories of Slavery and Freedom 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2018 

 

 

 

 **Instructor:** [Tim McCarthy](/people/timothy-mccarthy)  
**Meeting time:** Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:45

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In the last generation, scholars have revolutionized our understanding of slavery and freedom in the modern Atlantic world. This sea-change has been the result of a major methodological shift: to view this history through the eyes of slaves rather than the eyes of masters. This course will examine the history of the "black Atlantic" through a diverse range of cultural texts--poetry, pamphlets, court cases, petitions, autobiographies, novels, speeches, and sermons--produced by slaves, free blacks, and abolitionists from the Age of Revolution to emancipation.