HIS 364 Emancipated Communities

In this seminar, students will analyze and demonstrate knowledge of the emergence of free black communities in the United States and the Caribbean by comparing pathways to freedom that ranged from legislative manumission, maroonage, and revolutionary upheavals. Students will synthesize primary source materials and scholarly publications as they examine the impact of policy and racial ideology on citizenship, mobility and community formation. Fulfills writing-intensive and diversity requirement. Prerequisite: HIS 226, 247, 260, or 261.