1 HIST 2710O Introduction to Caribbean History
Department of History Fall 2017 Due Date: October 16, 2017 (Upload as a Word document on CU Learn) Page Length: 5 pages Assignment 1 (40%) Essay Question: Using the articles listed below and the podcasts assigned in this course, discuss the forms of labour that were used prior to the introduction of sugar production in the Caribbean. Explain the ways in which the Sugar Revolution led to a shift away from Indigenous and European labour and to a heavy reliance on the use of enslaved African labour. Instructions: The research for this essay is to be based on secondary sources. Students must use a minimum of four (4) academic history articles and three (3) of the course podcasts relevant to their topic. The use of articles assigned in this course is encouraged and permitted. You are not expected to use other reading material. Readings Note: All these articles are listed on the syllabus and are available through ARES (see CU Learn for article access). • Forte, Maximilian C. “Extinction: Ideologies Against Indigeneity in the Caribbean.” Southern Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 4 (2006):46-69. • Altman, Ida. “The revolt of Enrique and the historiography of early Spanish America.” The Americas, Vol. 63, No. 4 (2007): 587- 614. • Beckles, Hilary. “Plantation Production and Proto-White Slavery: White Indentured Servants and the Colonization of the English West Indies.” Americas, Vol. 41 (1985), 21- 45. • Trevor Burnard, “European Migration to Jamaica, 1655 -1780,” William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 4, 769 – 796. • Trevor Burnard and Kenneth Morgan. “The Dynamics of the Slave Market and Slave Purchasing Patterns in Jamaica, 1655 -1788.” William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 1 (2001): 205 -228. Podcasts • Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean: Identity, Memory and the Politics of History • Early European Settlement & Indigenous Resistance • Early European Settlement, Part II • The Sugar Revolution 2 Assignment Expectations 1. Essays will be evaluated in three areas: content, grammar, and essay construction. Please pay equal attention to each of these components. 2. Essays are to be type-written and in 12p Times New Roman font. Essays are also to be double-spaced. 3. You should use the Chicago Manual of Style. Please use footnotes (at the end of each page) and a bibliography (list of references) at the end of your essay. a. For a guide on how to cite using the Chicago Manual of Style see the following link: http://www.
