HIS 364 Emancipated Communities

The emergence of free black communities in the United States and the Caribbean is the focus of this seminar. Students will examine pathways to freedom from legislative manumission, popular resistance, maroonage, and revolutionary movements over human liberty. Students will examine the ways in which racial ideology and concepts of color shaped citizenship and access to resources in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Fulfills writing-intensive requirement. Prerequisite: HIS 247, 260 or 261.

Credits

4