Jan. 20--The African-Americans' "New World"

1. The Problem
   1. Land of Freedom from Exploitation
   2. An Opportunity to Profit from Exploitation
2. But Whom to Exploit?
   1. Native Americans--Inadequate as Laborers
   2. White Indentured Servants--Hard to Control
      1. Need to Induce Them to Come
      2. Difficulty of Subordinating Them Once Here--Land and Guns as Equalizers
   3. African Slaves--The "Final Solution"
      1. Convenience
         1. Economic--A Pre-existing Source
         2. Moral--No Onus of Enslavement
      2. "Alien" Character
         1. As Justification for Slavery
         2. As Tool of Control
3. The Slave Experience--A Different Way of "Becoming American"
   1. A Radical Form of Alienation
      1. Violent Stripping of Old Culture
      2. The New World as a Land of (Hostile) Strangers
   2. Coping With Alienation--The Creation of African-American Culture
      1. African Cultural Survivals
      2. Appropriating White Culture: Evangelical Christianity
         1. Attraction to African-Americans
            1. Faith as Spiritual Experience
            2. The Community of Faith as Inclusive
         2. A New "Mission": Slaves as the True "Chosen People"
   3. African-Americans as American Critics