Africans in the Americas

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From the early 1500s through the 1860s, more than 12 million Africans\2014almost all of them enslaved\2014crossed the Atlantic Ocean. In the plantation societies, port cites, and mining centers of the Americas, Africans and their descendants struggled to survive under brutal conditions, negotiated new relationships with one another and with their enslavers, and reconfigured African cultural practices. This course will examine the everyday lives, cultures, and survival strategies of these African and African-descended people, with an emphasis on plantation societies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Course Attributes: Africana Studies Minor, Historical Perspectives, Peace & Justice Studies Minor College of Arts & Sciences History