African-American History I Before 1877

Catalog description

The course will examine the African American experience from the Middle Passage through the end of Reconstruction. It is arranged chronologically and thematically, and thus explores the concept of race; the institution of legal, race-based slavery; the impact of the American Revolution on slavery; the development of a distinctly African American culture; northern, urban slavery; the plantation South; the antebellum years; the Civil War and Reconstruction.