Arts, Sciences, and Engineering					History
Course Section Listing	Course	Course Title					Term	Credits	Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-194300	HIST 235-1	Ancient Slavery and Modern Abolition					Spring 2025	4.0	Open
Schedule:		Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date TR 1230 PM 145 PM 01/21/2025 05/11/2025
Enrollment:		Enrolled      3	Capacity      30
Co-Located:		BLST 255-01, CLST 216-1 (P), HIST 235-1
Instructors:		Alexander Cushing
Delivery Mode:		In-Person
Description:		Political and moral ideals from the ancient Mediterranean World played an important role in shaping the character of political and social institutions in the colonial and post-colonial United States. Slaveholders justified the practice of slavery in America based in part on their own interpretation of ancient Roman and Greek models and ideologies of slavery. Both as a reaction to this pro-slavery use of ancient allusions and also because of the 19th century cultural value of Classical education and the authority of ancient examples, many American abolitionist thinkers, politicians, and activists also incorporated ancient examples and ideals into their own anti-slavery arguments. This course will explore the influence of the ancient Mediterranean world on the expression and evolution of abolitionist activities and political thought, with a particular focus on the rich local anti-slavery history of Rochester and Western New York. We will examine primary sources from the ancient world and the 18th and 19th centuries and consider the role of ideas about the ancient world as it relates to modern slavery and the movement to abolish it in the United States.
Offered:		Fall Spring Summer