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Educated for Freedom : The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation /

James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet met as schoolboys at the Mulberry Street New York African Free School, an educational experiment created by founding fathers who believed in freedom's power to transform the country. Smith and Garnet's achievements were near-miraculous in a nati...

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Auteur principal: Duane, Anna Mae, 1968- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, [2020]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Slavery at the school door
  • The star student as specimen (ca. 1822-1837)
  • Shifting ground, lost parents, uprooted schools (ca. 1822-1840)
  • Orphans, data, and the American story (ca. 1837-1850)
  • Throwing down the shovel (ca. 1840-1850)
  • Pumping out a sinking ship (ca. 1850-1855)
  • Follow the money, find the revolution (ca. 1850-1855)
  • Bitter battles, African civilization, and John Brown's Body (ca. 1856-1862)
  • The war's end and the nation's future (ca. 1862-1865).