Here's a list of possible topics for your document analysis essay and your paper. Remember that you are studying the period between 1300 and 1877.
You can also decide to focus on a person (Harriett Tubman, Gabriel Prosser, Crispus Attucks, etc.)
Slave Rebellions
Freedom’s Journal
The Amistad
Roots of the Blues
Sacred Musical Traditions
Maroon Societies
Islam in the United States
The “Great Negro Plot”
The Stono Rebellion
Slave Religion
Christian SyncretismSecret Societies
The “griot” tradition
Dance and Society
Rice in African American History
African Music in the Americas
Slavery and Law in Early America
European and African Slavery
Africans and Native Americans
Literacy and Society
Back To Africa Movements
American Colonization Society
African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
African American Schools
The 54th
Massachusetts Regiment
You can also decide to focus on a person or an organization. Here are a few examples: