Schooling citizens : the struggle for African American education in antebellum America / Hilary J. Moss.

Author: Moss, Hilary J.

Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Descriptionxv, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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