US Slavery Debate in the 19th Century - AAA133014

• Title: US Slavery Debate in the 19th Century
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2016
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: David Lee Robbins, Ph.D.

Annotation

Slavery constituted a critical political, social, literary, and cultural issue in the U.S. during the nineteenth century; but the contents, manifestations, contexts, and rhetorics of that issue were, for the most part, far more nuanced and complex to 19th-century contemporaries than they sometimes appear to be to twenty-first-century observers. This seminar explores the historical, literary, and cultural nuances of the construction of slavery in the nineteenth century before, during, and after the Civil War.

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Last update: Robbins David Lee, Ph.D. (19.09.2015)