HIS 207 African American History 1519 to 1890
This course is a survey of African American history from its beginnings through emancipation and Reconstruction. Content will be focused on the study and analysis of the African origins of black Americans, the middle passage, the development of plantation slavery, and the many historical changes that shaped African American life and culture thereafter-from the Revolution to the Civil War. Topics will include the impact of the Revolution on African American life; the emancipation of slavery in the post-Revolutionary North and the development of a free black community there; antebellum slavery, slave culture, and slave resistance; the black abolitionist movement; and African American freedom struggles during the Civil War and Reconstruction.