Emphatically Our Battle: A Content Analysis of the African Free School of New York City's Curriculum
Abstract
The African Free School of New York City was established in in 1787 by the New York Manumission Society aimed at providing an education of moral uplift for the children of freedmen and former enslaved people after the American Revolution. This research examines their curriculum to ascertain whether the goal of the school was to serve the free community as a vehicle for civil rights, and political and economic emancipation, or, a tool for assimilation into white, segregated society.
Presentation Description
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Location
Room 107
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Perrotta, Katherine, "Emphatically Our Battle: A Content Analysis of the African Free School of New York City's Curriculum" (2022). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. 28.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2022/2022/28
Emphatically Our Battle: A Content Analysis of the African Free School of New York City's Curriculum
Room 107
The African Free School of New York City was established in in 1787 by the New York Manumission Society aimed at providing an education of moral uplift for the children of freedmen and former enslaved people after the American Revolution. This research examines their curriculum to ascertain whether the goal of the school was to serve the free community as a vehicle for civil rights, and political and economic emancipation, or, a tool for assimilation into white, segregated society.
