You will draft a 2–3 page research prospectus, which will present (a) the subject you propose to investigate,
(b) the specific question you will answer,
(c) a preliminary outline of the essay, and
(d) a bibliography, formatted according to Chicago Manual of Style notes and bibliography rules,
of at least ten relevant scholarly sources.
Sources to be included in the bibliography:
In Winbush, R. A. (2003). Should America pay?: Slavery and the raging debate on reparations.
Balagopalan, Sarada; Coe, Cati; Green, Keith M. (2020). Diverse unfreedoms : the afterlives
and transformations of post-transatlantic bondages
Dix, Andrew; Templeton, Peter (2020). Violence from slavery to #BlackLivesMatter : African
American history and representation
In Blatt, M. H. (2023). Violence and public memory.
Lillich, R. B. (2006). International human rights: Problems of law, policy, and practice.
Fein, H. (2007). Human rights and wrongs: Slavery, terror, genocide. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
Walden, R., Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations., & Shoresh Charitable Trust. (2004).
Racism and human rights. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Blackburn, R. (2011). The American crucible: Slavery, emancipation and human rights. London:
Verso.
In Hufton, O. H. (1995). Historical change and human rights: The Oxford Amnesty lectures
1994.
Bennett Parten (2023) ‘The Science of Human Rights:’ American Abolitionism and the
Language of Human Rights, Slavery & Abolition, 44:2, 377-393, DOI:
10.1080/0144039X.2023.2173005
Rawley, J. A., & Behrendt, S. D. (2005). The transatlantic slave trade: A history. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press.
Lindsay, L. A. (2008). Captives as commodities: The transatlantic slave trade. Upper Saddle
River, N.J: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Jacobovici, S., Kingsley, S., & Jones, B. D. (2022). Enslaved: The sunken history of the
transatlantic slave trade.