Luis Martinez-Fernandez (Pegasus Professor of History, University of Central Florida)
February 5, 2026
Advisor(s): David Beller and Jamie Wilson, NHC Teacher Advisory Council
This webinar will provide a condensed overview of the long history of slavery and resistance in the Atlantic World, touching on topics that include the chattel slave trade, the seventeenth-century Caribbean sugar revolution and its consequences, slavery and the law, various roads to freedom, and cultural syncretism.
The session aims to equip instructors with vital historical information, pedagogical strategies, and relevant materials to help them effectively teach the subject to their students.
Subjects
History / Education Studies / Slavery / Slave Resistance / Slave Trade / Caribbean History / Law / Culture /
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