HISTORY 263 - Slavery

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Bard College

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Africana Studies, Classical Studies, Human Rights, SRE Slavery can be defined as an institution in which an individual's labor is extracted-usually forthe duration of his/her life-with the imprimatur of recognized legal authorities and with some sort of social stigma attached to enslaved status. This system of inequality has touched every human civilization; since ancient times, societies inAsia,Africa, pre-ColumbianAmerica, and Europe have all practiced various forms of slavery. Debt/poverty, war victories, ideology, religion, race, and sex have provided avenues and reasons for the enslavement of human populations. This course focuses mainly on the ideas, practices, and experiences of slavery in Greek and Roman societies in the eighth century B.C.E. through the second century C.E., and then later in the Americas, particularly North America, from the 17th through the 19th centuries. It also briefly considers indigenous African slavery and medieval Islamic slavery, and the historical "progression" of slavery forms,relationships among types of slavery, and the differences among slavery systems.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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