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“Men so Heartless”: Historical Imagination and Potosí

A discussion of teaching the silver trade to understand the effects on Indigenous Americans better.

“Men so Heartless”: Historical Imagination and Potosí
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“A Total Abolition of Slavery”: The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave System

A discussion of how to integrate African voices into the teaching of the abolition of slavery.

“A Total Abolition of Slavery”: The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave System
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“At Last I Defended Myself”: 400 Years of Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave System

A discussion of how to center the resistance of enslaved Africans when teaching the transatlantic slave system in world history courses.

“At Last I Defended Myself”: 400 Years of Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave System
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“We Cannot Reckon How Great the Damage Is”: Origins of the Transatlantic Slave System, c.1450 - c.1650

Discussion of how to teach the origins of the transatlantic slave system with a focus on understanding the different regional and global consequences

“We Cannot Reckon How Great the Damage Is”: Origins of the Transatlantic Slave System, c.1450 - c.1650
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"People Who Have Interrupted Empire": African and Indigenous Resistance in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

I’ve looked at more world history textbooks than I want to admit. One thing almost all of them have in common is some discussion of Portuguese maritime expansion along the western coast of Africa in the fifteenth century and the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas in the

"People Who Have Interrupted Empire": African and Indigenous Resistance in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries