0AThis reading seminar in African American history offers an introduction to the major questions in African-American history from its beginnings, emancipation, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow to the Great Migrations, urbanization, rights movements, riots, and cultural and political debates of the late-twentieth century. We will analyze the African origins of black Americans; the world the slaves' made, the world of slave markets, and slave economies; and the continuities and discontinuities between the antebellum and postbellum freedom struggles. The first third of the course will examine the colonial and antebellum contexts. The remaining course readings are weighted towards the study of the period spanning from the first Reconstruction to the Second Reconstruction (1860-1980).