HIST 2511 - [Black Women to 1900]

(crosslisted) AMST 2511, ASRC 2511, FGSS 2511
(HB) (HA-AS)

Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

M. Washington.

This course explores the social, cultural and communal lives of black women in North America, beginning with the transatlantic slave trade, and ending in 1900. Topics include Northern and Southern enslavement, first freedoms in the North, Southern emancipation, color consciousness, gener-cross racially and issues of class.