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For questions, please contact Ben Wright at bgw1 AT rice dot edu
- Syllabus
- Weekly Blogs
- Week 1 – 1/9 Course Introduction
- Week 2 – 1/16 Traditions of Slavery
- Week 3 – 1/23 Race and Racism
- Week 4 – 1/30 Origins of the Slave Trade
- Week 5 – 2/6 Slavery in Brazil and the Caribbean
- Week 6 – 2/13 Slavery in Colonial North America
- Week 7 – 2/20 Slavery and the American Revolution
- Week 8 – 3/6 Modern Slavery
- Week 9 – 3/13 Haitian Revolution
- Week 10 – 3/20 British and American Antislavery
- Week 11 – 3/27 Slave Resistance
- Week 12 – 4/3 Colonizationist Movements
- Week 13 – 4/10 19th Century Slave Life
- Week 14 – 4/17 Emancipations
- Timeline
- Archive
- Modern Slavery
- Wikipedia Historiographies
- Final Papers
- Reviews
The Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery 