Credit Hours: 3 This course examines various social, political, and economic developments of slave societies in the Americas (North, Central and South), the West Indies, and Africa from roughly the 1200s to the late-1800s with a primary focus upon the lives and roles played by people of the African Diaspora and their encounters with Europeans and Indigenous Americans. Identical with AAS 345. Cannot receive credit for both HST 345 and AAS 345.