Title
Learning Freedom: Education, Elevation, and New York's African American Middle Class, 1827-1829
Date of Award
2013
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Education
Abstract
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 the development of a conservative educational philosophy, based in social elevation through Christian morality and republican respectability, held by members of an emerging African American middle class in New York and other northern
antebellum cities.
Recommended Citation
Hines, Michael, "Learning Freedom: Education, Elevation, and New York's African American Middle Class, 1827-1829" (2013). Master's Theses. 1819.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/1819
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Copyright © 2013 Michael Hines
