The African-American Experience in Literature and History
Weekdays June 22-June 29, 9:00am-9:55am EST
($300 for 10 classes)
We’ll start with the construct of race, exploring how Anthony Johnson, one of the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown, was freed and given land like other indentured servants. Then we’ll trace the development of race-based slavery and its codification in Virginia’s Slave Codes following Bacon’s Rebellion. We’ll read historical and literary sources including Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, WEB DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Ta Nehisi Coates, and Michelle Alexander, among many many others.
Weekdays June 22-June 29, 9:00am-9:55am EST
($300 for 10 classes)
We’ll start with the construct of race, exploring how Anthony Johnson, one of the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown, was freed and given land like other indentured servants. Then we’ll trace the development of race-based slavery and its codification in Virginia’s Slave Codes following Bacon’s Rebellion. We’ll read historical and literary sources including Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, WEB DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Ta Nehisi Coates, and Michelle Alexander, among many many others.
Weekdays June 22-June 29, 9:00am-9:55am EST
($300 for 10 classes)
We’ll start with the construct of race, exploring how Anthony Johnson, one of the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown, was freed and given land like other indentured servants. Then we’ll trace the development of race-based slavery and its codification in Virginia’s Slave Codes following Bacon’s Rebellion. We’ll read historical and literary sources including Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, WEB DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Ta Nehisi Coates, and Michelle Alexander, among many many others.