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COURSES   /    ASRC 6464
Underground Railroad Seminar
This Course At a Glance
Subject

Africana Studies & Research Center (ASRC)

Semester

Fall

Credits

3 credits. Student option grading.

Instructor(s)

G. Aching

This seminar offers students the unique opportunity to explore the abolition movement of upstate New York and to visit and research some of the Underground Railroad routes in Ithaca and the Central New York region. The course provides an introductory examination of antebellum slavery and its abolition in the United States, including slave narratives and the alliances among free African Americans, Quakers, and other abolitionists in the United States. One of the principal student projects includes writing a brief fictional piece on the experience of being on the Underground Railroad or assisting someone to travel on it. These creative writing exercises will be considered for uploading to the Voices on the Underground Railroad website.

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