Date of Award
2013-01-01
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
English Teaching
Advisor(s)
Jonna Perrillo
Abstract
After the end of the Civil War, Northerners flooded into the South in order to participate in the education of freedmen. While many, perhaps most, of the individuals who worked in freedmen education had the best interests of the freedmen in mind, freedmen education in of itself was inherently political; therefore, all contributors to freedmen education were also sponsors of Southern Reconstruction politics. It is my argument that the aid organizations (particularly the American Missionary Association and the American Freedmen's Union Commission), the writers and printers of freedmen-specific textbooks (the American Tract Society and Lydia Maria Child), and the teachers educating freedmen in the South, placed themselves in a prominent position in order to influence Reconstruction politics and economy by manipulating the freedmen in hopes of controlling the black popular vote, should the freedmen be granted the right to participate in voting practices.
Language
en
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2013
File Size
162 pages
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Ashley Marie Swarthout
Recommended Citation
Swarthout, Ashley Marie, "Textbooks, Teachers, and Compromise: The Political Work of Freedmen Education" (2013). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 1942.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/1942
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