HIST 523 - Afro American History

Credit Hours: 3

An introduction to the history of black Americans in the United States, with emphasis on the social forces underlying transition from West Africa to the New World, from slavery to freedom, and from rural to urban life. Topics to be discussed include the Atlantic slave trade, American slave societies, maroon communities, free blacks in the antebellum United States, Reconstruction and free labor, colonization, emigration, and urban migration.