--Religion with Letters
III.--Education as a Right of Man
IV.--Actual Education
V.--Better Beginnings
VI.--Educating the Urban Negro
VII.--The Reaction
VIII.--Religion without Letters
IX.--Learning in Spite of Opposition
X.--Educating Negroes Transplanted to Free Soil
XI.--Higher Education
XII.--Vocational Training
XIII.--Education at Public Expense
Appendix: Documents
Bibliography
Index
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Brought from the African wilds to constitute the laboring class of
a pioneering society in the new world, the heathen slaves had to be
trained to meet the needs of their environment. It required little
argument to convince intelligent masters that slaves who had some
conception of modern civilization and understood the language of their
owners would be more valuable than rude men with whom one could not
communicate. The questions, however, as to exactly what kind of
training these Negroes should have, and how far it should go, were to
the white race then as much a matter of perplexity as they are now.
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