Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Work independently in preparing for class work and written assignments
- Critically assess large amounts of complex material
- Display effective time management in preparation of class and coursework assignments
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- The characteristics of slave societies and plantation economies in the British Caribbean
- The criticisms of slavery arising in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- The role of enslaved people in opposing and resisting slavery
- Efforts by slaveholders and their allies to prevent or delay the dismantling of British slave systems
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Understand key debates that have divided historians of slave emancipation
- Analyse, interpret and use historical evidence
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Completion of assessment task | 56 |
Seminar | 44 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 100 |
Follow-up work | 100 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation; Thomas Bender; 1992.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition, 1760 - 1810; Roger Anstey; 1975.
Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World: A Student Reader; Hilary McD. Beckles and Verene A. Shepherd (eds); 2000.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 50% |
Written assignment | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External