4c/Marcuse, L5 outline

ENVISAGING A NEW SOCIETY

Music: 19th Century African American Congregational Singing, by the McIntosh County Shouters

Causes of the abolition of slavery?

  1. Web demonstration
    • UCSB site
    • Metacollege site
      • Candide, Amistad, Zong; plagiarism
  2. Break
    • Film "Amistad" (1998), 7½ mins.
  3. Antislavery: The Causes of Abolition
    • Morality vs. Economics vs. …
      • 1808 Clarkson, History of the Rise, Progress
      • 1862 J. Cairnes, The Slave Power
      • Granville Sharp: 1772 Somerset, 1779 Vassa
    • The Zong massacre: Sept. 1781-1783
      • Equiano p. 287 note 502
      • W. Turner, 1812 poem, 1840 painting
    • [C.L.R. James on Toussaint (text pp. 739ff)]
  4. Enlightenment: text vs. film
    • video "A Son of Africa" (1996), 4½ mins.