AFRAMER 118 - The History of African Americans From the Slave Trade to the Great Migration

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

Topics include the rise of slavery; the American Revolution and the problem of freedom; African American social, economic, and cultural life in the antebellum North and South; the Civil War; Reconstruction; African Americans in the Jim Crow South; and the Great Migration. Thematically, we explore the meaning of freedom, the dynamic between black struggle and white resistance, and the ways in which factors like gender and geography complicated any notions of a single black experience.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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