Description
An introduction to the theory and practice of slavery in antiquity with the main focus on the institution of slavery in Rome. The topic will be examined via diverse texts and disciplines; e.g., religion, law, literature, philosophy. Also an examination of the impact and connections of ancient slavery to the institution in the New World.
This course fulfills the requirement of the Core Curriculum for a course in the social sciences with the goal of promoting historical awareness.
A Howard graduate will demonstrate an understanding of the broad economic, political, and cultural development of human society and social relationships in their historical and contemporary global, regional, and social relationships in their historical and contemporary global, regional and national contexts. The graduate will be able to describe the basic structural national contexts. The graduate will be able to describe the basic structural configurations tat affect human social conditions and responses to social problems, with reasonable emphasis on how the experiences of people of African descent have contributed to these configurations. Further graduates will demonstrate an understanding of the processes by which legal cultural, and economic institutions have been developed and the roles of formal and informal social institutions in shaping individual and collective lives with emphasis on the role of human agency in advocating for the common good and in reshaping or influencing these institutions.