HIS 5014 African-American History
This course is a survey of African-American history from the earliest times to the present. Topics will include the African background, slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade, American slavery in the colonial period, Blacks and the Revolutionary War, the making of Black communities, Black revolts and radicalism, the abolitionist movement and emancipation, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Black economic and civil rights struggles, Black migrations to the North, the Harlem Renaissance, political nationalism, the New Deal to World War II, the civil rights movement, Black nationalism, political, economic, social and cultural developments of the present.