History 205: Africa in the World: Between the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Postcolonial World involves a broad-ranging discussion that covers the situation of Africans in their continental homeland and the situation of people of African descent dispersed throughout the Americas as a result of the Atlantic slave trade. The course covers the situation of Africans in their continental homeland and the situation of people of African descent dispersed in the Americas as a result of the Atlantic Slave Trade. HIST 205 is about the effects of white/European exploitation and domination over African people in Africa and in the Atlantic World, but it is also about the varying ways in which Africans shaped the world in which they were dominated. This is a course about slavery. It is also about slave struggles to maintain their sense of humanity, and also their efforts to overthrow slavery as a system (as in the case of the Haitian Revolution). It is a course about colonialism in Africa and about racial domination and the decades-long struggles of Africans to end colonialism and attain full equality both in Africa and New World societies that denied them basic citizenship rights well into the sixties. The course concerns politics as well as African cultural expression in so far as politics and culture were mutually impactful on the lives of diasporic African people.