HIST 3883 - Slavery/Freedom/Segregation

Credit Hours: (3) Former: (HIST 4880)

Description: This course covers the history of African Americans from the 1820s to the early 1900s, particularly the major social, political and economic developments during this period – antebellum slavery and freedom; the impact of westward expansion; Civil War emancipation and the post-war construction of freedom; the development and impact of legal and extra-legal segregation; black nationalism and Pan-Africanism; and the Progressive movement through the beginnings of the Great Migration.