3 credit hours(Same as AST 4435.) Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Focuses on the history of the African slave trade. Explores trans-Atlantic slave trade compared to other slaveries; historical significance and legacies of the slave trade; and the changing meaning of the term “slavery” and some modern forms of slavery that persist to this day.