HISU 4580 Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum South

HISU 4580 Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum South
Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum South
The course surveys the colonial origins of American racial attitudes; African adaptations to bondage; the historical evolution of plantation slavery as a social institution, labor system, and method of racial control; the nature of white antislavery sentiment; the content and meaning of proslavery ideology; and the status of free blacks in slave society.
credit hours: 3