Spring Schedule & Readings
Location: Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, GA 3134
Contact for more information and access to readings: Genie Yoo (yoojh@iu.edu)
February 2, 3pm - 4:30pm
“Fugitivity, Marronage, and Abolitionism”
- Richard Price, Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas, selections.
- Stuart Schwartz, “Rethinking Palmares: Slave Resistance in Colonial Brazil,” in Critical Readings on Global Slavery
- Indrani Chatterjee, “Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of Silence,” in Indrani Chatterjee and Richard Eaton, eds., Slavery and South Asian History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 287–315
- Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press, 2017) selections.
- Neil Roberts, Freedom as Marronage, selections.
- Christopher Schmidt-Nowara “Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World.”
March 22, 3pm - 4:30pm
“Unfree and Coerced Labour Practices”
- Clare Anderson, “Convicts and Coolies: Rethinking Indentured Labour in the Nineteenth Century,” Slavery & Abolition 30, 1 (2009): 93-109
- Richard B. Allen, “Slaves, Convicts, Abolitionism and the Global Origins of the Post-Emancipation Indentured Labor System,” Slavery & Abolition 35, 2 (2014): 328-348
- Clare Anderson, “Convicts, Commodities, and Connections in British Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1789-1866,” International Review of Social History 64 (2019): 205-227
- Kris Manjapra, “Plantation Dispossessions: The Global Travel of Agricultural Racial Capitalism,” in Sven Beckert & Christine Desan. eds. American Capitalism: New Histories (Columbia University Press, 2018)
- Daniel Nemser, selections from Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico.
April 25, 3pm - 4:30pm, GA 2134
“Memorialization, Representations & the Afterlives of Slavery & Unfreedom”
- Mapule Mohulatsi, “Black Aesthetics and Deep Water: Fish-People, Mermaid Art and Slave Memory in South Africa,” Journal of African Cultural Studies 35, 1 (2023): 121-133
- Anne Eichmann, “From Slave to Maroon: The Present-Centredness of Mauritian Slave Heritage,” Atlantic Studies 9, 3 (September 2012): 319-335
- Nidhi Mahajan, “Remembering Slavery at the Bin Jelmood House in Qatar” (2021) https://merip.org/2021/08/remembering-slavery-at-the-bin-jelmood-house-in-qatar/
- Ana Lucia Araujo, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) selections
- Marcelo D'Salete, selections from Angola Janga: Kingdom of Runaway Slaves.
- Charles Walker and Liz Clark, selections from Witness to the Age of Revolution: the Odessey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru.
This Sawyer Seminar is funded by the Mellon Foundation.