LASS326 American Slavery 3cr

This survey history course provides a broad
overview of the origins and evolution of American
slavery. Lectures provide historical context for
analysis of a wide range of documents and films
analyzing the construction of laws defining
American slavery, religious ethos of slaves,
gender identities, resistance, slave culture, the
role of free people of color in the period of the
American slave regime, the coming of the Civil
War, and the aftermath of emancipation.

Lecture

Spring