HIS 526 Seminar: Problem of Freedom

This course will examine the historical evolution of post-emancipation by focusing on the ways in which former enslaved Africans and their descendants pursued their quest for economic justice and full citizenship. Students will analyze the agency of African people by exploring comparative methods of protest, labor policy and state formation, and systems of production employed during the transition from slavery to freedom. Intellectual inquiry will include the relationship between industrial capitalism and abolition, free labor ideology and post-emancipation plantation production, racial ideology and split labor markets, economic imperialism and 20th century diasporic migrations.

Credits

3