HIST 276 - Slavery in Latin America

FC SSCI CD

4 credits
The course offers a survey of the history of enslavement in Latin America. For more than 300 years, European colonizers exploited Indigenous people and people of African descent through slavery and other coercive labor systems, such as mita/encomienda and repartimiento. Slavery and coerced labor had long-lasting effects on the family, political organization, and cultural practices. It also generated tremendous wealth and cultivated prestige for colonizers and European monarchs. However, resistance movements fought against Spanish and Portuguese oppression and enslaved people escaped, formed their own communities, or disrupted economies to establish their agency in the colonial order.