HIST 2381 and 2382 | African-American History

Host Clint Smith presents 19 YouTube videos about Black American History, beginning with the Transatlantic Slave Trade and ending with Black Americans in the Civil War.

A law professor and two actors who portray free and enslaved Blacks at Williamsburg discuss the role that compromises over slavery played in the drafting of the U.S. Constitution and the enduring legacy of those compromises.