Slavery and Emancipation Seminar

The seminar focuses on the historical study of slavery and emancipation.

Slavery and Emancipation is a broad theme in the history of the modern world. While the study of this theme has usually been centred on the Altantic world and the enslavement of Africans in the Americas, slavery and emancipation was a prominent feature of the classical world of Rome and Greece, and a theme with relevance for the Islamic world and the Indian Ocean. Slavery and emancipation is one of the most common historical settings in almost every period of history and in all parts of the world.

How are we to study this phenomenon? How is it possible to master a vast literature that spans time and place? This seminar will explore the broad themes of slavery and emancipation through a variety of lens. Noted authorities in the field have been invited to participate in the seminar, sometimes in person and other times via skype.

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 (Updated August 23, 2013)