79-237 Comparative Slavery

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course will examine the pervasive, worldspanning institution of human slavery. Although the time frame this course deals with is broadfrom the rise of complex societies in the ancient world to slaverylike labor systems in the modern erathis class will focus more thoroughly on a few case studies, especially slavery in the Middle East and subSaharan Africa, the US, and the Caribbean. These disparate examples will be related to a number of core themes, including race, class, family, gender, religion, national identity and underdevelopment. This course has been offered on both CMUs Pittsburgh and Qatar campuses.

Prerequisites: none listed

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