This course examines the causes and the course of the Civil War, its social, economic, and political results during Reconstruction, and the early roots of segregation and the civil rights movement. It will examine the process of emancipation from the perspective of social history, and provide the international context of slavery that led to the war. Violent conflicts over free labor and the political and economic policies pursued by freedpeople, ex-masters, northern policymakers, wage laborers, and African American women will be covered.

Developments in American constitutional law with regard to the concept of civil liberty, including the fields of free speech and religion, fair trial, and race discrimination. The function of courts in determining the scope of these liberties.

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