HIS 243 - Global Slavery 3 cr.

The course will examine the cultural, economic, and political dimensions of slavery over the period of its greatest expansion, during the creation, development, and beginning of the end of African slavery. By analyzing slavery and slave trades from a global perspective, students will gain a basic understanding of world history through the hemispheric interconnectedness of slavery and its multi-racial components. It will cover the period from the enslavement of white Europeans by North African and Middle Eastern owners in the 1500’s, through the largest forced migration–of Africans to the Americas– in world history in the 1600’s and 1700’s, to the abolition of slavery by the British Empire in 1833. Pre and/or Corequisite: ENG 101