Slave Revolts and Maroons (ENG-0188)

Fall 2024 · ENG 0188 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

An examination of texts, traces and testimonies of African insurrection during the official period of “chattel slavery.” A creative survey of “slave revolts” (or uprisings) as well as “maroonage” (the flight from and fight against slavery anchored in fugitive communities) throughout the Americas. Literary case studies will range from The Haitian Revolution to Nat Turner in Virginia, Stono and Denmark Vesey in the U.S. South to rebellions in Cuba and Bahia, Brazil. No prerequisites.

Course codes: ENG-0188, ENG 0188, ENG0188, ENG-188, ENG 188, ENG188, AFR-0088, AFR 0088, AFR0088, AFR-88, AFR 88, AFR88

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