New Course Announcement -- HIST W3426 History of Slavery

HIST W3426y History of Slavery. 3 pts.

Professor Christopher Brown
TR 1:10-2:25
301 Fayerweather Hall

This lecture course presents an introduction to the history of comparative slavery, with particular reference to the relationship between human bondage and broader processes of economic and social change. Topics include the experience of enslavement, the development of long-distance networks for the transportation of slave labor, the rise and fall of the plantation complex in the Americas, and the distinctive character of human bondage in the twentieth century.

Department of History website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/ugrad/main/index/index.html