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HIST 307. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 012120

This course explores the origins, processes and outcomes of the infamous trade. By studying participants’ lives in Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America, the course helps students understand people’s inhumanity to each other and the ways in which slavery and the trade in slaves forever altered the development of the Atlantic world.