African American History I Through 1877

3 units

This course surveys the first half of African American history from ancient African civilizations through Reconstruction. It covers the slave trade and the Middle Passage; life in northern, middle and southern colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; African American experiences during the Revolutionary era; African American's contributions to the creation of a new republic; the peculiar institution of slavery; the abolitionist movement; sectional conflicts in the antebellum period; the Civil War and Reconstruction.