Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
Sinners, Sex, and Slaves: Race and Sex in Early America
Term session
0
Term
2015A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC345401
Meeting times
MW 1200PM-0100PM
Meeting location
COLLEGE HALL 314
Instructors
BROWN, KATHLEEN
Description
This course explores the lost worlds of sinners, witches, sexual offenders, rebellious slaves, and Native American prophets from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Using the life stories of unusual individuals from the past, we try to make sense of their contentious relationships with their societies. By following the careers of the trouble-makers, the criminals, and the rebels, we also learn about the foundations of social order and the impulse to reform that rocked American society during the nineteenth century.
Course number only
345
Cross listings
GSWS345401
HIST345401
Use local description
No