Schooling Citizens The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America

Name: Schooling Citizens The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America
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ISBN: 9780226102986

ISBN-10: 022610298X

ISBN-13: 9780226102986

Edition: 2009

Authors: Hilary J. Moss

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While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion. Through the comparative lenses of these three cities, she shows why opposition erupted where it did across the United States during the same period that gave rise to public education.As common schooling emerged in the 1830s, providing white children of all classes and ethnicities with the opportunity to become full-fledged citizens, it redefined…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Education's Inequity: New Haven, Connecticut



The Emergence of White Opposition to African American Education



Interracial Activism and African American Higher Education



Education's Enclave: Baltimore, Maryland



Race, Labor, and Literacy in a Slaveholding City



African American Educational Activism under the Shadow of Slavery



Education's Divide: Boston, Massachusetts



Race, Space, and Educational Opportunity



Common Schools, Revolutionary Memory, and the Crisis of Black Citizenship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century


Conclusion: The Great Equalizer?



Index of Occupational Categories



Name, Occupation, and Address of Identifiable Petitioners Opposing the Proposal to Build a School for Black Children on Southack Street


Notes


Index