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HIST 2105 - American Slavery and Emancipation


The transformation of life and labor for African Americans from the era of North American colonization through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Emphasizes slavery as a complex system of labor exploitation and racial control, the dynamics of slave communities, slave resistance, emancipation as process, blacks as agents of their own social and economic change, and the broad meanings of slavery and freedom in American life and in world history. Coursework includes reading of primary and secondary texts.

Credit Hours: (3)


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