Harvard Summer Program in Ghana
Ghana
Term: Summer
Dates: TBA
Description:
This six-week program explores the history and material culture of slavery and slave trade in West Africa (Ghana) and the Caribbean (Danish Caribbean and Jamaica). It combines lectures, the critical use of contemporary sources, oral history, film and images, trips to sites of enslavement and slave trade (European forts along the coast, interior slave marts, and settlements that survived slave raids), and archaeological fieldwork on Danish plantations in the reconstruction of the period between about 1650 and 1850. Britain, Denmark, and the Netherlands were the preeminent European powers in the Gold Coast during this period. Gold Coast influences on material culture, religion, and sociopolitical organization in the Danish Caribbean islands and Jamaica underscore the diasporic connections that unite the black Atlantic.
Experience Required: no
This Program is open to
World Wide
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Year Founded: 1871
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