Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · Cal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 4 · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area DDescriptionThis course is designed to familiarize students with the main themes in the comparative history of slavery. Starting with slavery in ancient times and working towards the present, this class looks at how various forms of involuntary servitude (conveniently all lumped together under the term "slavery") have served as underpinnings for production of goods and services. In particular the course will focus on how the methods and ideologies that underwrote the Transatlantic slave trade vastly differed from other forms of enslavement that preceded it. Emphasis will be placed on how new racial ideologies allowed for the expansion of slavery and the development of capitalism during the early modern era. We will look at the Atlantic world, but also the Indian Ocean world, and systems on the African continent to compare involuntary servitude across time and space. The course examines how slavery contributed in ways large and small to the creation of the globalized world in which we live. 