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This course is a study in the history of African-Americans in the United States, with emphasis on the social forces underlying transitions from West Africa to the New World, from slavery to freedom, and from rural to urban life. Topics include the Atlantic slave trade, American slave societies, maroon communities, free blacks in the antebellum United States, Reconstruction and free labor, colonization, emigration, and urban migrations.
| Book Title: | Voices of Freedom: An oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s |
| ISBN: | 0553352326 |
| Publication Info: | Bantam Books, Inc. |
| Book Title: | Mutiny on the Amistad:The saga of a slave revolt & its impact on American abolition, law,& diplomacy |
| ISBN: | 0195038290 |
| Publication Info: | Oxford University Press |
| Book Title: | Harlem at War: The Black experience in WWII |
| ISBN: | 0815604629 |
| Publication Info: | Syracuse University Press |
| Book Title: | Black Wealth / White Wealth, 2nd Ed |
| ISBN: | 0415951674 |
| Publication Info: | Routledge N. Y., 2006 |