Fall Schedule & Readings

Location: Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

Contact for more information and access to readings: Genie Yoo (yoojh@iu.edu).

“Key Concepts and Debates on Slavery, Racialization & Gender”

Orlando Patterson, “Authority, Alienation and Social Death,” in Slavery and Social Death, 35-76
Suzanne Miers, “Slavery: A Question of Definition”
Vincent Brown, “Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery,” American Historical Review, December 2009
Noel Lenski, “Framing the Question: What is a Slave Society,” in Lenski and Catherine m. Cameron (eds.), What is a Slave Society? The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Jennifer Morgan “Refusing Demography” in Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic, and “Partus sequitur ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery.”
Alys Weinbaum, “Human Reproduction and the Slave Episteme” in The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History.
Marissa Fuentes, selections from Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive.
Nira Wickramasinghe, Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka (Columbia University Press, 2020) selections.

“Processes of Enslavement & Forms of Violence”

John Thornton, “The Process of Enslavement and the Slave Trade,” in Critical Readings on Global Slavery
Richard M. Eaton, “Introduction,” in Indrani Chatterjee and Richard Eaton, eds., Slavery and South Asian History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 2–7.
Pier Larson, “Horrid Journeying: Narratives of Enslavement and the Global African Diaspora”
Sowande’ Mustakeem, Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (University of Illinois Press, 2016) selections
Alicia Schrikker & Nira Wickramasinghe (eds.), Being a Slave: Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean (Leiden University Press, 2020) selections
Gerrit Knaap, “Slavery in the Dutch Colonial Empire in Southeast Asia: Seventeenth-Century Amboina Reconsidered,” Slavery & Abolition 43, 3 (2023): 499-516.
Saidiya Hartman, “Markets and Martyrs” in Lose Your Mother.

“Forms of Slavery and Unfreedom around the Globe”

Anthony Reid, “Introduction: Slavery and Bondage in Southeast Asian History,” in Reid (ed.), Slavery, Bondage and Dependency in Southeast Asia (St Martin’s Press, 1983).
Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. Eaton (eds.), Slavery & South Asian History (Indiana University Press, 2006) selections
Nancy E. van Deusen “Introduction” to Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth Century Spain.
John Monteiro Selections of Blacks of the land: Indian slavery, settler society, and the Portuguese colonial enterprise in South America. ”
Tatiana Seijas “The Rise and Fall of the Transpacific Slave Trade” in Critical readings on global slavery, reprinted from Asian slaves in colonial Mexico: from chinos to Indians.
Kate Ekama, Lisa Hellman & Matthias van Rossum, “Slavery and Labour Coercion in Asia – Towards a Global History,” in Ekama et al (eds.), Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850 (De Gruyter, 2022)

This Sawyer Seminar is funded by the Mellon Foundation.