What is the basis of government and religious authority in the modern world? SEMINAR: Declaration of Independence and selections from Locke, Second Treatise of Government
[TEAM] Discussion – Appiah, “There is No Such Thing
As Western Civilisation” )
[DB] Religion and Politics of the Enlightenment – Paine, “Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion”
Who was the American Revolution for?
No class: Labor Day
Race and the American Revolution – Gary B. Nash, The Forgotten Fifth (Harvard UP, 2006), 1-67; Massachusetts Emancipation Petition (May 1774) (SAKAI)
Phillis Wheatley (READ: four poems and a brief biography of Wheatley, linked on Sakai; also, continue reading Nash, 69-122)
SEMINAR: Nash, 123-168; Federalist #54 (SAKAI)
What is a nation? Who ‘counts’ as part of a nation’s citizenship?
Alexandre Dumas and Georges (READ: Begin Georges, reading at least through Ch V, p 48)
[CJ] Nationalism in the Nineteenth-Century World – Primary Sources TBA (SAKAI) SEMINAR: Dumas (Georges) (finish the novel before seminar)
How should workers and owners relate to each other in an industrial economy? How should we think about the ethics of industrialized labor?
[DB] Marx, “Estranged Labor”; Communist Manifesto, Section 1
Industrial labor: a Catholic perspective: READ: Excerpts from Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (Sakai)
SEMINAR: Marx (Communist Manifesto)
How does Douglass’s account of slavery connect to Marx’s and Leo’s ideas about labor and justice?
[BH] Douglass, Abolitionism, and the Genre of the Slave Narrative. READ: Douglass, Narrative of the Life…, through Ch X (pp. 13-68)
[CJ] The 1860 Election and the Civil War – Secession Ordinances of Confederate States (SAKAI) – GROUPS TBA
SEMINAR: Douglass, Narrative and “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”. READ: Narrative of the Life…, through the end (thru p. 84)
READ: “What to the Slave…” in the Norton edition of the Narrative, pp. 114-125.
