Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4C · CSU GE Area D3 · CSU GE Area D6 · CSU GE Area D · CSU American Institutions Area US2 · CSU American Institutions Area US1DescriptionA survey of United States history from colonial times through the Civil War from the perspective and experiences of African-Americans. The course begins with the historical backdrop of African peoples in continental Africa and the trace their story through early modern European contact, slave trade, enslavement in the Americas, colonial America, the revolutionary and Constitutional era, the early Republic, participation in American institutions, sectional issues between North and South over slavery, the Civil War and emancipation. Examines the contradictions, paradoxes and constitutional challenges of the American experiment of freedom alongside the institution of slavery. Explores the political, social, economic, legalistic, cultural, spiritual, literary and artistic life of African-Americans during this historical period. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-4, CSU-D, IGETC-4, Cal-GETC-4) 