It was crazy to listen to the class videos and hear that a lot of people hadn’t learned about things in our readings so far. I remember having an extensive learning experience on the subject of slavery when I was in middle school and […]

Coming from an international background, I have never really studied slavery in the USA. My focus has always been on slavery in Brazil. It is extremely interesting to see that they were already talking about freeing slaves in the 18th century while in Brazil, it […]

Over the first two-week of class, I have learned a lot about slavery. After the lectures and after reading the two chapters from Carl Schermerhorn’s book I realized that my knowledge about slavery from high school was very poor. My knowledge before this class mainly […]

Hello to everyone who is reading this blog post. I am a senior at Michigan State studying advertising management with a minor in psychology. A little about me is that I am from Fort Lauderdale, FL. I often get asked the question “why leave Florida […]

I found this week’s discussions and the sources we looked at very compelling, and they seemed very indicative of how society viewed the issue of slavery hundreds of years ago, and the mindsets of the people who created those sources. The chapters in Schermerhorn’s book […]

In Chapter 2, we read about Rhode Island had passed an abolition act to free all slaves born after March 1,1784.  Rhode Island still had active shippers and merchants in the transatlantic slave trade, and had shippers embark 25,000 more captives on the middle passage […]

The research question I would choose would be, “Explain the relationship Thomas Jefferson had to slaves”.  First, I would visit the Library of Congress website to look for specific documents that pertain to Thomas Jefferson and Slavery.  I would then try to locate which articles […]

These readings have been rather fascinating! It’s intriguing reading about all of the aspects of history that are not taught, and more than that, all of the things that are taught, but in a very diluted, PG way. I suppose what really caught my eye […]

Over the first two weeks of class, we have read the first two chapters of Schermerhorn’s book as well as discussed two primary sources. Honestly, I have learned more in the past two weeks than I ever had before, in high school my history teacher […]

During our second week we had learned things I hadn’t been taught before. It was a shock to me to hear how slavery was much worse as I had thought. It was very interesting to get a deeper look in several different view points through […]