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Oct 18, 2024
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Goucher College 2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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HIS 264 - African-American History (4 Cr.)
This course surveys the major developments in African-American history from the arrival of Africans in North America through the Civil Rights movement. Topics include: the slave trade and the “Middle Passage”; the origins of slave society; regional variations; free blacks in the antebellum North; the impact of the American Revolution and the Civil War on slavery; the labor and recreational activities of slaves; the development of voluntary societies after the Civil War; the participation of African Americans in various wars; the first and second “great migrations;” and the development, nature, and consequences of the Civil Rights movement. Prerequisite: HIS 110 and HIS 111 or sophomore standing. Variable semesters. Hale.
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