HIST 535: Problems in Global History
HIST 535-DL1: Comparative Slave Trades
(Fall 2025)
07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W
Online
Section Information for Fall 2025
This course will examine slave trading from a global perspective. We will place the more well-known trans-Atlantic slave trade alongside other forms of coerced labor migration that occurred during the early modern period. Much of the course will focus on the major economic, political, and cultural factors that influenced forced migrations across the Atlantic between 1500 and 1870. These factors will be compared with those involved in the trafficking of African and Asian peoples across the Indian Ocean and Pacific. Topics of discussion will include conceptions of race, the cultural contributions of diasporic communities, modes of resistance, and global pressures toward abolition. In addition to writing weekly short papers and assisting with leading discussions, students will engage in a short research project on a topic of their choosing.
HIST 535 DL1 is an online live video section.
Course Information from the University Catalog
Credits: 3
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
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