ANTEBELLUM AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Course #: HIST 368
Description:
This in-depth study examines African American historical experiences in Antebellum U.S. history. Starting with their origins from West Africa before being transported to the New World in the 1500s, the course explores their cultural, socio-economic, and political experiences as indentured servants; as free people; as slaves; and as freed'' people. It surveys their development from the early colonial era up through the United States era that passed a proclamation freeing them from slavery before the Civil War ended. This course analyzes the impact that regional location, age, ethnicity, skills, and gender had on shaping their history; scrutinizes their roles in the slavocracy, in resistance, and in early U.S. development; gauge how their experiences impacted legislative changes; and understand the unfolding of their identity of blackness and becoming African American.
Pre Requisites: Pre-requisite: ENGL 102