Comparative Slavery

Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

This graduate-level seminar in Comparative Slavery will examine systems of involuntary servitude from the ancient through modern periods. The course will examine the history of slavery as a political, social, intellectual, and cultural as well as economic and racial construct thus seeking to escape the stereotypes of slavery created by the U.S. institution. Western and non-western slave systems will be studied.

Credit: 3