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Autor/in | Byrd, Michael |
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Titel | "Negro Harry's School". A monument to equal rights to education. |
Quelle | In: Social service review, 90 (2016) 3, S. 434-463 |
Beigaben | Anmerkungen; Literaturangaben |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0037-7961 |
Schlagwörter | Persönlichkeit; Soziale Interaktion; Gleichberechtigung; Schule; Lehrer; Geschichte (Histor); Sklaverei; Sozialgeschichte; Apartheid; Rassismus; Afroamerikaner; Ethnische Minderheit; USA |
Abstract | Eighteenth-century letters and poor relief case records reveal the remarkable story of Harry, the first African American teacher, and his school. Beginning in 1743 in Charles Town and persevering for over 30 years, Harry taught as many as 1,000 slaves to read. Despite laws prohibiting teaching slaves such as the Slave Act of 1740, opposition from wealthy merchants and planters, enmity of poor whites, shifting and uncertain financial and political support, epidemics, natural disasters, assault, and his own confinement for madness, Harry continued to teach, gaining the support of wealthy elites and future founding fathers. Historical documents also detail how economic and social welfare policies elevated the interests of some slaves above those of poor whites and granted select city-dwelling slaves a measure of autonomy and even privilege. |
Erfasst von | Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen, Berlin |
Update | 2023/1 |