Augustine on Slavery, Human and Divine
A Conversation With Toni Alimi
12.00-1.30pm | Friday, April 4
Elm Library, 31 Whitney Avenue
Why did Augustine judge chattel slavery to be permissible? What does chattel slavery have to do with slavery to God? And is slavery merely a peripheral theme in Augustine’s thought? The answers to these three questions turn out to be deeply interconnected, and shed light on Augustine’s deepest theological and ethical commitments.
Toni Alimi is Assistant Professor of Classics, Cornell University.
This event is open to all members of the Yale community. Lunch will be served.
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A wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.
—Augustine, City of God