Applying concepts from Deborah Brandt’s “Sponsors of Literacy” to Frederick Douglass’ “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” explains how American slavery functioned as an institutional literacy sponsor, and how Douglass achieved literacy against the opposing forces of his sponsor. During the antebellum period, the American slavery institution, fueled by pro-slavery Anglo Saxons, maintained a social structure that guaranteed political, economic, social, and legal advantages for whites over African Americans. Afraid that literacy acquisition for African Americans might lead to their self-empowerment and eventual freedom, pro-slavery whites dedicated themselves to anti-literacy legislation and other measures aimed at keeping African ...
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is one of the most famous African-American to escape slavery in the n...
Scholars correctly appreciate Frederick Douglass’s novella The Heroic Slave (1853) as an important e...
Some thirty years before Harriet Ann Jacobs opened the Jacobs Free School in Alexandria, Virginia in...
Applying concepts from Deborah Brandt’s “Sponsors of Literacy” to Frederick Douglass’ “Narrative of ...
One of the earliest accounts of teaching an adult to read comes from the work of the slave Harriet A...
The inalienable rights related to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness highly advocated by the Ame...
The courageous effort of enslaved Africans to acquire English literacy is an often-ignored story tha...
When antebellum slaveholders opposed slave literacy, it was primarily because they thought readers a...
Frederick Douglass was the leading spokesman of American Negroes in the 1800s. Born a slave, Douglas...
Breaking with Tradition is a study of slave literacy in eighteenth-century British North America, t...
t is the design of this project to suggest that Frederick Douglass\u27 novella, The Heroic Slave, ...
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born a slave; however, at an early age he decided to become a fre...
Kayla Hardy-Butler presents a famous letter by Frederick Douglass, as it was published in Ohio, with...
In the seven decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the beginning of the Civil War...
set four million blacks free from legal bondage. Yet many had nowhere to go, few skills to rely on, ...
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is one of the most famous African-American to escape slavery in the n...
Scholars correctly appreciate Frederick Douglass’s novella The Heroic Slave (1853) as an important e...
Some thirty years before Harriet Ann Jacobs opened the Jacobs Free School in Alexandria, Virginia in...
Applying concepts from Deborah Brandt’s “Sponsors of Literacy” to Frederick Douglass’ “Narrative of ...
One of the earliest accounts of teaching an adult to read comes from the work of the slave Harriet A...
The inalienable rights related to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness highly advocated by the Ame...
The courageous effort of enslaved Africans to acquire English literacy is an often-ignored story tha...
When antebellum slaveholders opposed slave literacy, it was primarily because they thought readers a...
Frederick Douglass was the leading spokesman of American Negroes in the 1800s. Born a slave, Douglas...
Breaking with Tradition is a study of slave literacy in eighteenth-century British North America, t...
t is the design of this project to suggest that Frederick Douglass\u27 novella, The Heroic Slave, ...
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born a slave; however, at an early age he decided to become a fre...
Kayla Hardy-Butler presents a famous letter by Frederick Douglass, as it was published in Ohio, with...
In the seven decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the beginning of the Civil War...
set four million blacks free from legal bondage. Yet many had nowhere to go, few skills to rely on, ...
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is one of the most famous African-American to escape slavery in the n...
Scholars correctly appreciate Frederick Douglass’s novella The Heroic Slave (1853) as an important e...
Some thirty years before Harriet Ann Jacobs opened the Jacobs Free School in Alexandria, Virginia in...