Introduction to African-American History: Key concepts from 1700-1861 (212-1-1)
Instructors
Amanda Joyce Hall
Meeting Info
Kresge Centennial Hall 2-430: Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM
Overview of class
African American History I is an introduction to the history and experiences of African and African-descended peoples in the Atlantic world between 1500 and the late 1880s. It explores the rise and fall of the regime known as racial slavery coupled with the expansion of transatlantic European empires. Slavery, colonialism, and the violent production of racial difference in and across these imperial economies formed an African diaspora that resisted these conditions of exploitation and unfreedom. Framing the period as a 400-year war for abolition, we show that Black resistance led by rebels, maroons, and organized people, set into motion a wave of abolitionism that began in the 1780s, ignited Civil War in the U.S., and concluded in the 1880s when Cuba and Brazil outlawed slavery.
Class Attributes
Historical Studies Distro Area