#  HL90L: Stories of Slavery and Freedom 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2016 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/6566) 

 

 

 

**Instructor:** Timothy P. McCarthy  
**Meeting time:** Tuesday, 10-12

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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.