Slavery and Slave Trade in Global Context

Education facts

Code: 4HI494

The course provides you with an overview of slavery and slave trade across the modern world in a global comparative perspective. It contrasts the trans-Atlantic trafficking of humans with that of the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Also bonded and permanently subservient labour is discussed in view of formal slavery.

Entry requirements

1-90 credits including an independent project of 15 credits in a subject in the humanities or the social sciences or the equivalent, English 6, or the equivalent.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Slavery and Slave Trade in Global Context

  Linnaeus University (Kalmar Växjö)

  Start date: 30 March 2026

  End date: 7 June 2026

  Pace of study: 50 %