Slavery

Description: 19th-century Brazilian slave society, focusing on gender and resistance. 19th-century Latin American history, with particular attention to issues of race and gender.

Description: Contemporary American and Postcolonial fiction, especially South African. Women's writing. 19th-century American writing and slavery, especially Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Description: African American history. American history. Non-violence and social justice. Martin Luther King Jnr and political education in the civil rights movement.

Description: American politics. Race relations, including black/white and ethnic issues. American culture.

Description: Ancient Sparta. The Spartan ruling elite - their society, economy and politics. Sparta and war - does ancient Sparta deserve its reputation as a militarised society? Sparta in modern thought and politics - comparisons between Sparta and Nazi Germany in 20th-century British thought; comparisons between Sparta and the Soviet Union in Cold War American foreign policy and intelligence thinking. Slavery in ancient Greece - Spartans' slave underclass, the helots, their lifestyle and treatment by Spartan ruling elite; comparisons between Spartan helotage and modern slavery in debates about abolition in the 1790s.

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