Black Freedom in an Age of Evo.

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This course focuses on how people of African ancestry in the Americas fought for political freedom, social equality, and economic opportunity in the era of the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. Topics will include the experiences of African Americans in American Revolution, the efforts of the first civil rights leaders in the United States, the movement to end slavery and the slave trade in the early U.S., the Haitian Revolution and its impact on the early U.S., and the emergent discussion of pan-African and African-American identity in the early 19th century.