In this Institute 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 Four: African Americans Taking Their Freedom During the American Civil War. This lecture will examine the process of freedom and how African Americans actively changed the course of the war as they worked to change the course of America and the trajectory of their own lives.

Speaker: Dr. Terry Anne Scott

Course Dates: Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26 at 5pm PST.

Lectures for this course will be recorded for everyone to watch on your own timing. Registrants will receive viewing instructions/reminders in advance of each lecture.