AFST 115 - The Afro-American in American History, 1619-1865
Semester Hours:3Every Other Year
From the African origins of black slavery through emancipation and the Civil War. Emphasis is given to the slave trade, the nature of black society under slavery in both North and South, the relation of the American Revolution to the antislavery movement, and the role of blacks in Abolitionism and the Civil War.