AFRS 1111 - The African American Experience through Civil War

Institution:

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Subject:

Africana Studies

Description:

Crosslisted as HIST 2160. Exploration of circumstances that brought Africans to the Americas and their experience during the era of slavery. Emphasis on the political, economic, and socio- cultural systems that maintained slavery in the South and constrained freedom in the North and the responses and struggles of African Americans. Topics include: slavery/slave trading to the Americas; the system of slavery in British North America; free blacks; political compromises sustaining the peculiar institution; and the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the freedom, citizenship, and suffrage of African- Americans. (Fall)

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uncc.edu

Phone Number:

(704) 687-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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