Africana Studies

Origins of the African Diaspora

This course examines the forced dispersal of African peoples across the Atlantic world, tracing the political, economic, and social structures that enabled and sustained the transatlantic slave trade from its early foundations through the height of the system.

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Units

1. Unit 1Indigenous African Societies and Pre-Capture Social Structures
2. Unit 2European Maritime Expansion and the Establishment of Coastal Trading Networks
3. Unit 3Mechanisms of Enslavement: Warfare, Raiding, and the Politics of Capture in West and West-Central Africa