Schooling Citizens: The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America

by Hilary J. Moss

Book Overview

While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion. Through the comparative lenses of these three cities, she shows why opposition erupted where it did across...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226542491
• ISBN13: 9780226542492
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"