SLAVERY AND FREEDOM: AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY, 1600-1896

0.50 credits

The course explores themes in African American history from 1600 through the Civil War and the collapse of Reconstruction. Topics include histories of slavery and resistance; abolition, antislavery and the underground railroad; links to African Canadian history; freedom and emancipation; reconstruction, racial politics, and segregation at the end of the 19th century.