Graduate Seminar — Atlantic Slavery
Course Overview
In this seminar we will explore the history and historiography of slavery in comparative perspective, focusing on the many expressions of slavery in the early modern Atlantic world but ranging widely for comparison. Slavery was an institution, a social relationship, a cultural practice, and an individual experience. And like other ubiquitous institutions — family, for example — slavery varied widely among cultures and across time andspace. Even within the so-called “plantation complex” in the colonial Americas, practices and experiences varied significanly.