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HIST 355. African-American History to 1865


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 004274

A survey of the experience and changing status of African-Americans in the United States from 1619 through the Civil War, with attention to the West African background, cultural developments, social and political movements, slavery and the slave trade, dual-consciousness, and emancipation.