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Learning Freedom: Education, Elevation, And New York's African American Middle Class, 1827-1829, Michael Hines
Learning Freedom: Education, Elevation, And New York's African American Middle Class, 1827-1829, Michael Hines
Master's Theses
The education of free African American children in the antebellum period is a subject that has interested historians and scholars of education for decades. This thesis uses a new set of primary source material gathered from the pages of Freedom's Journal, the first African American owned and operated news organ in American history, to trace the development of attitudes regarding education in the free black community of New York in the late 1820s. By examining the editorials, articles, advice columns, and illustrations focused on education and child rearing that appear in the 104 issues of Freedom's Journal, this thesis shows …