HIST 10165 - West Africa & Black America, Connection

Course Credit: 1
(GLIS)
This course is about West Africans and their connection to the Americas from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. We will focus on the changing nature of African political and social formations, the rise and development of the Atlantic slave trade, the impact of that trade on the Atlantic societies,especially the formation of Black American cultures and their relations and interactions with Africa. [C, HSS]