Speaker: Dr. Terry Anne Scott

Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, February 6, 13, 20, 2024

Meeting Time: 5:00 pm PST - 6:30 pm PST (8:00 pm EST
to 9:30 pm EST)

This foundational course, Dr. Terry Anne Scott will survey the struggles and accomplishments of people of African descent in the United States during the institution of slavery. While some attention will be paid to African origins, the three sessions in this series will analyze the historical path from importation through the Civil War and the process of freedom. Through a largely, but not exclusively, chronological approach, Dr. Scott will emphasize how African Americans have worked to determine the trajectory of their own lives and worked to resist and persevere. Areas of exploration will include but are not limited to, the following: the construction of racial identity and alterity, the slave family and community, the domestic slave trade, resistance, and the process of freedom.

Lecture One: The Emergency of Slavery in North America. This lecture will focus on how slavery emerged and grew in North America. It will also examine the social construction of race.