A survey of African American history, with an emphasis on the origins of the ancient kingdoms of Egypt, Kush, Meroe, Axum, and West Africa and including the slave trade, slavery, the beginnings of black culture in the North and South, slave resistance and rebellions, and sectional differences. Northern free blacks will be studied along with the Civil War and the Reconstruction period of 1868.
HI 267: African American History I
Class Program