Macalester Moodle

HIST 294-06 (30433)

Age of Atlantic Revolution - From Stono to Haiti

Between 1729 and 1804, people in the interconnected Atlantic world sought to reconfigure social, economic, and political relations through collective resistance and revolution. The most momentous movements were led by subjugated peoples, including enslaved Africans and white workers. This course examines the practices that revolutionaries deployed; how political thought, spiritual beliefs, food diplomacy, and ecological transformation guided actions; and how exiles, refugees, and forcibly transported persons reshaped the wider Atlantic World from New Orleans and Cuba to Sierra Leone and London.


Fields for History Major: Gender; Colonization and Empire; Law and Social Justice; Race and Indigeneity.

Gen Eds: Internationalism

History 229 is an introductory course focused on African-American women’s history and the narratives it inspired. We will examine the ideological, political, economic, and cultural make-up of the Black musical traditions in the United States. The basic themes of this course will include: Black feminism; womanism; jazz art and design; African-American literature; intersectionality; and Afrofuturism.