The module will provide an interdisciplinary overview of slavery studies, ensuring that all students on the MAIS programme have a clear and inclusive understanding of enslavement as a historical and contemporary phenomenon. The emphasis will be on conceptual and theoretical approaches to slavery and unfree labour, providing students with broad knowledge of the chronological, geographical and cultural contexts in which these phenomena exist and the approaches that researcher adopt to analyse them. The module will provide a focus that links the local with the global, ensuring that students understand the role of Liverpool in the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans whilst also engaging with enslavement in national, transnational and global frames.