Course Outline-Slavery, Abolition, and Re-enslavement
The course will be presented by lecture and power point presentations.  Students should have a basic knowledge of American history through 1876.  There will be no assigned homework, although a bibliography will be provided to supplement what is presented in class.

LECTURE #1 DEFINITIONS, ORIGINS, EARLY HISTORY

I.  What is slavery?  Definitions
II.  Slavery in ancient times
III. Slavery in the middle ages 
IV.  Enlightenment views on slavery
V.  The Rise of sugar 


LECTURE #2  SLAVERY COMES TO THE AMERICAS

I.  The Caribbean  and South America 
	The early voyages
II.  Wealth in the Americas
	A.  Sugar and slaves
 	B.  Tobacco-the savior of the Virginia experiment
	C.  Cotton
III.  The  English efforts-Beyond the line(Outside the limits of treaties)
	A.  why do they come 
	B.  who comes
	C.  How pay for colonizing
	D.  The Chesapeake Bay–The disaster and transformation
		1.	The recipe for disaster
		2.	1619 –Three major changes
		3.	 Slavery introduced
		4.	The transformation


LECTURE #3 THE SLAVE PROCESS

I.  Slavery in the colonies and states 
II. The dehumanization of slaves
A.  Capturing slaves
B.  The Middle Passage
C.  Slave auctions
D.  The Slave culture in the south
E.  Plantation society
		III.  The life of slave men and women
		IV.  The southern economy
		V.  Slave resistence
		VI.  Slavery is a positive good


		LECTURE #4   ABOLITION

I.  Early efforts
	A.  Christianity
        B.  England
	C.  Enlightenment
II.  The American abolition movement
        A.  Methodists, Quakers
	B.  The American Revolution
III.  Slavery and the Constitution
IV.  Abolition’s voices
	A. Northern attitudes towards slavery and race
	B. Slavery becomes a political issue
	C. John Brown’s raid
	D. The election of Abraham Lincoln


LECTURE #5 AMERICA’S IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLES

		I.  The American Revolution-Declaration of Independence
		II.  Slavery and the US Constitution
		III.  Legislation and slavery
			A.  Compromise of 1820
	                B.   Compromise of 1850
		IV.  The war with Mexico
			A.  The slave tinge and its impact on political parties and society
		V.  Weakening of the cords of union
			A.  Fugitive Slave laws
	                B.  Dred Scot
	                C.  Bleeding Kansas
	                D.  Brooks/Sumner clash
	VI.  The final straws
	                A.  John Brown
	                B.  The rise of Abraham Lincoln
	                C.	The election of 1860
	                D. 	Ft. Sumter

LECTURE #6 THE TWO CIVIL WARS-ABOLITION’S FAILURE

I.  The course of the war
	A.   Why Lincoln fought the war
	B.  The Emancipation Proclamation
II  Reconstruction
	A.  Lincoln’s plan
	B.  Andrew Johnson’s plan
	C.  Congressional Reconstrudtion
                 1.  The Civil War Amendments
	D.   What the blacks did after the war
	E.  Southern resistance and federal response
	F.  The end of reconstruction
III.  Re enslavement of blacks
	A.  Post war economy in the south
	B.  Jim Crow laws
	C.  Judicial resistance to changing the south
	D.  Elimination of the 15th amendment right to vote
IV  The rise of black resistance