Mar 28, 2024  
2014-2015 HillBook (Class of 2018) 
    
2014-2015 HillBook (Class of 2018) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

LC 334 - Learning Community: Frederick Douglass & His Circle: Race, Writing, & the Tropics of History

One Credit
Spring Semester

This course uses the life of Frederick Douglass as a basis and lens for understanding 19th-century American history, literature, and culture. Douglass’ heroic journey from slavery to freedom in antebellum America, delineated in three autobiographies, reveals a nation riven by race, region, economy and even differing conceptions of justice and morality. Weaving a rich context from biography, fiction, poetry, fine art, music, film, and primary materials, we will “do history” by expressing Douglass’s complex life and times in prose, online writing, and in short documentary films.

Corequisite(s): Students must also take HIS 100/128  and IND 357  Topic: American Transcendentalism: Race, Gender & Radical Reform as part of this Learning Community.
Fulfills the History Cornerstone and Moral Inquiry requirements.