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Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
Word Count: 11888 Includes: Colonization to Revolution | Southern Hostility, Northern Segregation | Black Activism, Self-Education | Northern Education | Informal Educational System of Slavery | Educative Function of the Underground Railroad | Freedmen's Bureau and Northern Missionaries | Beginnings of Educational Philanthropy | Black Higher Education | Retrenchment | Bibliography | Bibliography[This entry contains two subentries dealing with the education of African Americans from 1619 through 1895. The first article provides a discussion of Christian education of slaves in early New England and contrasts Northern and Southern whites' attitudes towards the education of African Americans. The second article continues the discussion of education in the North and South through the establishment of black higher-education institutions after 1830.] The hostility of whites toward African American education that characterized the early nineteenth century was never a foregone conclusion. In fact, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, whites in both northern and southern communities generally tolerated if not encouraged the literary, religious, and vocational instruction of people of color. Especially in New England, where ...
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Source: Black Women in America, Second Edition
Word Count: 9716 Includes: Twenty-First Century: Progress and Challenges | BibliographyThe history of African American women's education is interwoven with the overall histories of both black education and women's education. The earliest histories of both of these groups were ones of exclusion, neglect, and discrimination. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the prevailing view of most of American society was that neither women nor African American men should be educated beyond what was appropriate to their prescribed—and inferior—roles in society.While enslaved African Americans in the South were legally barred from learning to read prior to Emancipation, free African Americans in the North had nominal opportunities for schooling. This was one of the few freedoms they could enjoy, since in many northern states free African Americans were barred from voting, testifying in court, carrying arms, traveling freely, ...
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