HIST 259 - The History of the African-American People to 1877

FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years

An intensive study of the African-American experience from the colonial period through Reconstruction. Special emphasis is given to the slave experience, free blacks, black abolitionists, development of African-American culture, Emancipation, Black Reconstruction, and racial attitudes.DeLaney.