History

HIST3675Abolition: From the Slave Trade to Mass Incarceration (O)3 ch (3C) (W)
Explores the history of abolition in the Americas from the slave trade and slavery to the emergence of the modern prison abolition movement and recent developments concerning policing, immigration detention, and carceral spaces of containment. Considers the Atlantic origins of mass incarceration, the resistnaces it spawned, and the consequences of abolition in West Africa, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean.