HIST254

Cross-listed with: AASP298C. Credit only granted for: HIST254 or AASP298C. Survey of the principal developments in the history and culture of the peoples of African descent in colonial North America and the United States to 1865. Examines the African past, the Atlantic slave trade, variation in slavery, the growth of free black communities, the transformations of families and cultural forms, and patterns of resistance. Cross-listed with AASP298C. Credit will be granted for AASP298C or HIST 254.