Educated for Freedom
The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4155696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hilary Mo (0000-0003-4813-2910, Amherst College, corresponding author), Hilary Moss (0009-0007-0576-9563, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 597-598 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaab266 |
| OpenAlex | W4226248697 |
| Language | EN |
In Educated for Freedom Anna Mae Duane chronicles the educational and activist biographies of two African American abolitionists: James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, who met as children while students at the Mulberry Street New York African Free School (Nyafs) in the 1820s. Some readers may be familiar with Smith and Garnet. Born to enslaved mothers, each achieved notoriety. Upon graduating from Scotland's Glasgow University, Smith became the first African American to obtain a medical degree. With his fiery speeches and calls for armed resistance, Garnet earned a canonical place in the Black radical imagination. Yet Duane's innovative account offers even readers well versed in this history something new: by elevating the importance of childhood and school, Duane highlights how Black people used education to resist “narratives that relegated Black people to a permanent state of immaturity, forever unable to access the responsibilities of citizenship” (p. 5
African american · Art · Citizenship · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |