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

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction

Part 1: Education’s Inequity: New Haven, Connecticut

Chapter 1: The Emergence of White Opposition to African American Education

Chapter 2: Interracial Activism and African American Higher Education

Part 2: Education’s Enclave: Baltimore, Maryland

Chapter 3: Race, Labor, and Literacy in a Slaveholding City

Chapter 4: African American Educational Activism under the Shadow of Slavery

Part 3: Education’s Divide: Boston, Massachusetts

Chapter 5: Race, Space, and Educational Opportunity

Chapter 6: Common Schools, Revolutionary Memory, and the Crisis of Black Citizenship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Conclusion: The Great Equalizer?

Appendix 1: Index of Occupational Categories

Appendix 2: Name, Occupation, and Address of Identifiable Petitioners Opposing the Proposal to Build a School for Black Children on Southack Street
 
Notes

Index