FIVE MAIN QUESTIONS TO FRAME DISCUSSION
1. What are the origins and evolutions of slavery, democracy, and race in the US?
2. What role did gender play in the relationship between freedom and slavery?
3. What is the relationship between race, slavery, sexuality and US History?
4. What is the significance of region in understanding US History?
5. Is the use of violence ever acceptable? Why? Why not?
THEMES
1. What are the origins and evolutions of slavery, democracy, and race in the US?
2. What role did gender play in the relationship between freedom and slavery?
3. What is the relationship between race, slavery, sexuality and US History?
4. What is the significance of region in understanding US History?
5. Is the use of violence ever acceptable? Why? Why not?
THEMES
- European and African Encounters
- Creolization
- The Atlantic
- Middle Passage
- Enslavement and variations in slavery
- Self-Presentation
- Propaganda
- Law
- Democracy
- Resistance
- Struggle for Equality and Freedom
- Family
- Ethnicity
- Religion, Faith, and Spirituality
- Identity