TY  - DATA
AU  - Duane,Anna Mae
TI  - Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation 
SN  - 9781479877225
AV  - E449 .D835 2019
U1  - 306.3/620973 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - African American intellectuals
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - United States
KW  - Free blacks
KW  - Slavery
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 1863 riot
KW  - Address to the Slaves
KW  - African American
KW  - African Civilization Society
KW  - African colonization
KW  - American Colonization Society
KW  - Black abolitionist
KW  - Black rebellion
KW  - Civil War
KW  - Colored Orphan Asylum
KW  - Frederick Douglass
KW  - Free Produce Movement
KW  - Heads of the Colored People
KW  - Henry Highland Garnet
KW  - James McCune Smith
KW  - John Brown
KW  - Lincoln
KW  - Marxist
KW  - New York African Free School
KW  - New York Colored Orphan Asylum
KW  - Noyes Academy
KW  - Thirteenth Amendment
KW  - University of Glasgow
KW  - Weims family
KW  - abolitionism
KW  - antislavery
KW  - census
KW  - colonization
KW  - freak shows
KW  - manhood
N1  - restricted access
N2  - The powerful story of two young men who changed the national debate about slavery In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Educated for Freedom tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled to grow from a slave nation into a free country. Smith and 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 nation that refused to acknowledge black talent or potential. The sons of enslaved mothers, these schoolboy friends would go on to travel the world, meet Revolutionary War heroes, publish in medical journals, address Congress, and speak before cheering crowds of thousands. The lessons they took from their days at the New York African Free School #2 shed light on how antebellum Americans viewed black children as symbols of America’s possible future. The story of their lives, their work, and their friendship testifies to the imagination and activism of the free black community that shaped the national journey toward freedom
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479877225.001.0001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479877225
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479877225/original
ER  -