History

HIST2604	Revolution and Emancipation in the Colonial Caribbean (A)	3 ch (2C 1T) (W)
Introduces students to a history of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century Caribbean, from the Haitian Revolution to the U.S. occupating of Cuba and Puerto Rico and the Cuban war of independence in the late nineteenth century. Topics covered include slave rebellion, the struggle to abolish the slave trade, anti-slavery and the abolitionist movement, slave emancipation and struggles to define freedom, Indian indentureship, and nationalist and independence struggles.