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.