week 1: Sept 2 & 4
Section outline
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§ Catherine Hall, “Remembering 1807: Histories of the Slave Trade, Slavery and
Abolition, History Workshop Journal 64 (Autumn 2007): 1-5
· Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (1946): Preface and Table of Contents
· Williams, “Massa Day Done,” (Public Lecture, 22 March 1961, Port of Spain, Trinidad), Callaloo 20:4 (Autumn 1997): pp. 724-30
· Williams, Documents of West Indian History vol. 1, 1492-1655 From the Spanish Discovery to the British Conquest of Jamaica (1963):
o Table of Contents, pp. v-xxiii
o “Introduction,” (pp. xxv-xxvii)
o “Foreword to Volume I” (pp. xxix-xxx)
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Jeta Amata, dir. The Amazing Grace (2006) film trailer
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Amma Assante, dir., trailer for Belle (2014)