Status
O
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
HIST176 - AFRO AMER HIST
Term
2014C
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
401
Section ID
HIST176401
Registration notes
CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN US
Meeting times
MW 0200PM-0330PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 214
Instructors
WILLIAMS, HEATHER
Description
This course will study the history of Afro-Americans from their first encounter with Europeans in the 16th century to emancipation during the Civil War. The course will concentrate on the variety of black responses to capture, enslavement, and forced acculturation in the New World. The difference in the slave experience of various New World countries, and the methods of black resistance and rebellion to varied slave systems will be investigated. The nature and role of the free black communities in antebellum America will also be studied.
Course number only
176
Cross listings
AFRC176401
Use local description
No
Section Type
CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE US
LPS Course
false
Major Concentrations
Major/Minor Requirements Fulfilled