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ES 341 - Enslavement and Resistance in the Americas

1. Students will explain the complex origins, history, and ultimate demise of African American enslavement, inter-connections throughout the Diaspora, and implications for the modern world.
2. Students will explain the heterogeneous and often regionally specific realities of enslavement, and be able to explain the relationship between specific crops and manufactured goods and social/political/cultural structures of enslaved communities of African peoples int he United States.
3. Students will openly debate the efficacy of slave rebellions, the history of maroon activity, and everyday resistance to the system of slavery.
4. Students will research the economic significance of African American enslavement on the development of the American economy, including and emphasis on the importance of sugar, rice, tobacco, and the manufacture of alcohol.

1. analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
2. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
3. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

1. Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
2. Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
3. Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.