Black Education Research Paper

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1 Slave Religion: The origin of Black Education Erin Youngblood-Smith AAS 116 Slavery and American Life before 1865 Professor Ula Taylor November 6,2013 2 Intro The historical relationship between Blacks and Christianity has been a mainstay throughout majority of the black experience in America. Through this relationship Blacks have built community, have fought for their rights to education and have dreamed up and established their own institutions of learning. The AME Church has proved to be an example of the struggles that the black church and its people have faced and overcome, as well as how the church has continued to be a focal point in the progression of black education. Historically the church, the family and the school…show more content…
What we know is that upon arrival on the colonies, Africans were immediately “seasoned”, essentially attempting to remove from them any remnants of freedom, identity and knowledge of their homeland, most often you hear of name changes, families being ripped apart and language being stripped away, among The Church, the Family, and the School in the African American Community Andrew Billingsley and Cleopatra Howard Caldwell The Journal of Negro Education , Vol. 60, No. 3, Socialization Forces Affecting the Education of African American Youth in the 1990s (Summer, 1991), pp. 427-440Published by: Journal of Negro Education…show more content…
Self-taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. Chapel Hill [u.a.: Univ. of North Carolina, 2005. Print. Pg 21 4 Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South: 1860-1935. Chapel Hill U.a.: Univ. of North Carolina Pr., 1988. Print. pg 2 5 Williams,pg 24, 6 A Rebellion to Remember: The Legacy of Nat Turner Jennifer Larson 7 Slavery and Theology: The Emergence of Black Christian Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century America Timothy L. Smith Church History Vol. 41, No. 4 (Dec., 1972), pp. 497-512 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society of Church History Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3163880 pg
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