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History of slavery - Prof. Carlo Taviani - a.a. 2024/2025
Politiche internazionali e della sostenibilità - Opzionali
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The history of enslaved people is at the center of many contemporary debates.
The course will begin focusing on these contemporary debates and the discussions of terminology, and then it will look at the long early modern history of enslavement, with particular focus on the Maghreb, the Sahel, the Mediterranean, West Africa, the Mid-Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Americas.
The course will discuss whether and how it is possible to study the history of enslavement in an integrated way with economics. It will also consider unknown and understudied historical processes, such as the involvement of European traders from the hinterland and the Italian peninsula in the early slave trade. It will focus on the history of abolitionism and on enslaved people who fought against slavery.
Class 1: Introduction. The historiographical and political debate
Class 2: An integrated history of enslavement: Economics and the Humanities
Class 3: Sources: History, Archaeology, and Art History
Class 4: Through the Sahara to North Africa and across the Mediterranean
Class 5: The Italian Peninsula (15th-18th centuries)
Class 6: The Renaissance and Enslavement
Class 7: Sugar production and slavery (14th-17th centuries)
Class 8: The Iberian Peninsula, West Africa, and the Mid-Atlantic
Class 9: The Involvement of the European hinterland
Class 10: The New World
Class 11: Escaping Slavery
Class 12: Enslavement in Asia
Class 13: Abolitionism
Class 14: Abolition
Class 15: Conclusion
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