Course Cost
This course, which includes fieldwork on the Island of San Salvador in
the Bahamas, will explore the interplay among literature, economics,
and the physical environments of slavery and abolition. Visits to the
island’s slave plantations ruins and a familiarity with the island itself
will inform readings of English and Caribbean slave narratives, proand anti-abolitionist texts, a San Salvador plantation owner’s journal
from this period, and other literary works dating from the early late
18th and early 19th centuries. The class will pay particular attention to
the impact of the physical environment on the conditions under which
the English slave trade and slavery existed, and were eventually legally
abolished, in this part of the world. Students will keep journals, develop projects, analyze washed-up refuse on the island’s “trash beach”
for what it tells us about the today’s consumption and environment,
and give presentations on their various findings.
~$1900
Includes
airfare, lodging, all meals on San Salvador
Prerequisites
W Course or ENG 201 or ENG 202 or ENG 215
Students must have a 2.0 GPA and must be in
good academic and disciplinary standing at the
college.
Michelle Mouton
Kelsi Kautzky
Professor of English
Off-Campus Studies
(x4223)
(x4385)
mmouton@cornellcollege.edu
kkautzky@cornellcollege.edu