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Zera Yacob: A Rationalist Philosopher, Alone in a Cave

Unit 1

What Survived the Crossing?

Unit 1

How Do We Know What We Know? An Introduction to the Curriculum's Questions

Unit 1

Contact, Collapse, and a New Labor Force

Unit 1

The Kouroukan Fouga: Africa's Constitutional Charter

Unit 1

Women, Power & Leadership

Unit 1

The Maafa: Economics of Dehumanization

Unit 2

Barbados and the British 'Sugar Revolution'

Unit 2

The Code Noir: France's Distinct Legal Approach to Slavery

Unit 2

The Dutch Difference: Curacao's Trade and Suriname's Maroons

Unit 2

The Experimental Body: Medical Exploitation Under Slavery

Unit 2

Gender & Resistance: Women Who Refused

Unit 2

Maroon Sovereignty: Free Communities in the Americas

Unit 2

Slavery, Indigenous Territory & the Five Civilized Tribes

Unit 2

Brazil & the Largest African Diaspora in the Americas

Unit 2

Where the Trade Actually Went

Unit 2

Fighting for a Country That Denied Freedom: African Americans and the Revolutionary War

Unit 2

Resistance That Never Stopped: Rebellions & Omar Ibn Said

Unit 2

The Haitian Revolution: When Rebellion Won

Unit 3

Quilombo dos Palmares: An African Kingdom in Brazil

Unit 3

Somerset v Stewart: A Narrow Ruling, Widely Misunderstood

Unit 3

The Sons of Africa: Black Britons Argue Their Own Case

Unit 3

John Blanke: The Only Portrait We Have

Unit 3

Nanny of the Maroons: Legacy, Leadership, and Complication

Unit 3

The Logic of the 1808 Act — Who Really Wanted It Gone? (1800–1807)

Unit 3.5

The Compromise — Constitutional Complicity (1787–1789)

Unit 3.5

The Legacy — Cotton Kingdom & the Missouri Compromise (1815–1820)

Unit 3.5

The Reality of the 'Closing' — The Second Middle Passage (1808–1815)

Unit 3.5

Fear as Policy: How British Colonial Legislatures Reacted to Haiti

Unit 4

Fedon's Rebellion: Grenada's Attempt to Become 'Another Haiti'

Unit 4

The Political Convention & Public Voice (1820–1840)

Unit 4

The Debate That Shaped a Century: Douglass, Washington, Du Bois & the Question of Black Freedom

Unit 4

The Tirailleurs Senegalais: Africa's Soldiers in France's War

Unit 4

Freedom's Soldiers: African Americans and the Civil War

Unit 4

The Affranchis: How Color Divided the Revolution From Within

Unit 4

Black Reconstruction: The Congressmen, the Legislation, and the Collapse

Unit 4

Jose Maria Morelos: Mexico's Contested 'Pardo' Hero

Unit 4

Antonio Maceo: 'The Bronze Titan' of Cuban Independence

Unit 4

Haiti's Hidden Hand and the Soldiers Bolivar's Story Forgets

Unit 4

The General Strike & The End of Slavery (1861–1865)

Unit 4

Clandestine Infrastructure & Fugitivity (1830–1850)

Unit 4

The Black Church: Institution, Liberation & the HBCU Pipeline

Unit 4.5

Disenfranchisement, Jim Crow & the Red Summer

Unit 4.5

The 13th Amendment Loophole: Convict Leasing & the Re-Enslavement of Black America

Unit 4.5

Peonage and the Debt Trap: Slavery by Another Name

Unit 4.5

The Debt That Outlived Slavery Itself

Unit 5

Apprenticeship in Practice: 'But Another Name for Slavery'

Unit 5

The 1833 Act and Its Compromise

Unit 5

Third World Marxism & Black Radical Thought: Rodney, Fanon, and C.L.R. James

Unit 5

Blanqueamiento: Engineering a Whiter Nation

Unit 5

The Myth of Racial Democracy: Freyre, Vasconcelos, and the 'Cosmic Race'

Unit 5

French West Africa: A Referendum With One Real Choice, and the One Country That Chose Differently

Unit 5

From Slave Ships to Rubber Vines: One Continuous Extractive Logic

Unit 5.5

Muhammad Ali: Resistance, Religion, and Refusal

Unit 5.5

The Black Body as Contested Territory: An Introduction

Unit 5.5

African Americans as Americans: 400 Years of Presence, Contribution, and Cultural Innovation

Unit 6

Malcolm X & the Nation of Islam: Black Nationalism and Self-Defense

Unit 6

The White Normative Gaze and Its Shadows: Respectability, Authenticity, and the Politics of Black Identity

Unit 6

Why the Order Matters

Unit 6

Gradual Abolition: Free Womb Laws and the Patronato System

Unit 6

A Hemisphere-Wide Timeline: Same Institution, Wildly Different Endings

Unit 6

From Plantation to Algorithm: The Digital Life of Colorism

Unit 6

'A New System of Slavery': The Origins of Indian Indentureship

Unit 6

Dance as Liberation: Alvin Ailey & Dance Theater of Harlem

Unit 6.5

The Literary Diaspora: Black Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Canon They Built

Unit 6.5

Black Cinema: From Oscar Micheaux to Ava DuVernay

Unit 6.5

Health Equity and the Present Moment: When the Body Is Still the Battlefield

Unit 7

The Caribbean Connection: Haiti, Jamaica, and the Making of the African Diaspora

Unit 7

Reform or Abolition: The Carceral State and the Movement for Black Lives

Unit 7

Black Political Representation: From Reconstruction to the Senate Floor

Unit 7

Lusotropicalism and Its Limits: Race in Portugal Today

Unit 7

Reconstruction: America's First Multiracial Democracy

Unit 7

Obeah: Criminalized for Two Centuries, Practiced Anyway

Unit 7

December 2022: One of the Last Apologies in Europe

Unit 7.5

Running North: Black Canada and the Diaspora's Northern Arc

Unit 7.5

Punished by Relocation: The Caribbean as Exile

Unit 7.5

Seasoning: The Caribbean as Waystation

Unit 7.5

Not One Voyage: The Myth of the Settled Diaspora

Unit 7.5

Modern African Immigration: The Newest Diaspora

Unit 7.5

You Could Be From Anywhere: Genealogy and the Moving Diaspora

Unit 7.5

Zwarte Piet: Fifty Years of the Same Argument

Unit 7.5

Forty Acres: The Promise, the Theft, and the Template

Unit 8

The Ring as Refuge: Cuban Boxing After Maceo

Unit 8

Reparations: The Argument, the History, and the Debate

Unit 8

The Universities: Georgetown's 272, and the Limits of Apology

Unit 8.5

Human Collateral: Slavery's Direct Line Into Modern Banking

Unit 8.5

Cotton as Capital: Reading American Industrialization Through Slavery

Unit 8.5

Innovation Against the Odds: Scientists, Inventors and Engineers

Unit 9

A Shipwreck, Not a Slave Ship: Origins on Yurumein

Unit 9

Ideas That Changed the World: The Black Intellectual Tradition

Unit 10

Many Paths, One Community: Religious Diversity in Black America

Unit 10

Imagining Freedom: African Futurism and Afrofuturism

Unit 10

Writing Recognition Into Law: Colombia and Chile

Unit 10

Calypso: Three Centuries of Singing the News

Unit 11

Between Two Movements: Organizations Bridging Black and Latino America

Unit 11

The Ten-Point Plan: A Region Presents Its Case

Unit 12

Freedom Without Land: The Origins of Rio's Favelas

Unit 12

Europe's Unfinished Question

Unit 12

The Pattern This Course Has Been Tracing All Along

Unit 12

Barbados Becomes a Republic: The Unfinished Fight

Unit 12