Early African American History: Black Perspectives on Foundations of American Democracy

This course examines the broad contours of African American history and culture in what would become the United States. Lectures and discussion include the development of preceding African states and societies, the origins of slavery, the middle passage, the domestic slave trade, the Black family under slavery, the Black church, Black abolitionists, and the antebellum free Black community to the Civil War and Emancipation.