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Watson, Shevaun E. – College Composition and Communication, 2009
This essay offers an earlier chapter in the history of African American literacy by examining colonial literacy campaigns within the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. The discussion focuses on one such transatlantic effort spanning from London to Barbados, South Carolina, and West Africa, which used enslaved teachers as agents of literacy.…
Descriptors: African American History, Slavery, Group Membership, Language Teachers
Eckelberry, R. H. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1932
The present study is an attempt to bring together and to interpret the more important facts concerning the origin and development of the municipal university in the United States. It is obvious that in a work in which the history of a university must be presented in a chapter instead of a volume, and in which the discussion of the subject as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Urban Universities, Educational Trends