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This lecture examines the ways in which Christianity came to define the debate over slavery and freedom – and the nature of the free black subject – in the ...

How did enslaved Black people in Sevilla imagine freedom and what strategies did they deploy to obtain it? The talk explores the collective and fractured ...

How did late antique households influence wider social organization and the Roman state? They served as microcosms of society, shaping social hierarchies and ...

Old Goa developed as one of the major port cities of the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century, as the Portuguese attempted to control maritime trade ...

European colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa relied (at least before the end of the Second World War) upon mechanisms of labour exploitation through forced ...

How did ancient gender discourse shape the roles and agency of women and men in mobility, and what factors influenced their ability to shape their own mobility ...

How did Mary Astell question the apparent contradiction between the freedom of all men and the perceived enslavement of all women? This lecture reexamines ...

The major question will be how enfranchised slaves, the so called freedmen, could acquire the Roman citizenship. In order to understand the dynamics and ...

What was the crucial and yet overlooked role that British women played in the Atlantic slave trade? While much focus has been on English men involved in the ...