ECON 358 - An Economic History of African Americans:Middle Passage to Great Society

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Lafayette College

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Employing an economic approach, this course explores the African American experience from their introduction as indentured servants in 1619-20 Jamestown to later importation as slaves. The course begins with the arrival of the first Africans to the Virginia colony, then traces the economics of the transition from servitude to slavery, from tobacco slave culture centered in the Chesapeake region to cotton culture in the Deep South, from slavery to freedom, and the slow transition to even a semblance of racial equality. Topics include economic consequences of the broken promise of "40 acres and a mule," segregation and Jim Crow, the Great Depression and the apparent abandonment of African Americans by the New Deal, policy changes wrought by the Civil Rights Movement, and affirmative action. Prerequisite: Econ 211, 212 Bodenhorn

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lafayette.edu/

Phone Number:

(610) 330-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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