College Composition and Communication Sep 2009

“Good Will Come of This Evil”: Enslaved Teachers and the Transatlantic Politics of Early Black Literacy

Shevaun E. Watson

Abstract

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.

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College Composition and Communication
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2009-09-01
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10.58680/ccc20098313
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