Gender, Sexuality, and History (321-0-21)

Topic

Black Women's History: Slavery and Freedom in the

Instructors

Leslie M. Harris
847/491-3153
Harris Hall - Room 340

Meeting Info

Harris Hall L28: Mon, Wed 3:30PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course will examine the lives of African American women between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Topics to be addressed include family and community relationships; sexuality and intimacy; and political activism: free black women in the anti-slavery movement and enslaved women's resistance to enslavement. By the end of the course, students will have gained an understanding of the contours of life for women of African descent in the nineteenth-century U.S.; and will have gained an understanding of how historians write history using primary and secondary sources.

Class Attributes

Historical Studies Foundational Discipline
Historical Studies Distro Area

Associated Classes

DIS - Parkes Hall 213: Thurs 11:00AM - 11:50AM

DIS - Parkes Hall 213: Thurs 12:00PM - 12:50PM

DIS - Parkes Hall 212: Thurs 1:00PM - 1:50PM