Education, Free Blacks, and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in Antebellum Philadelphia
This lesson requires students to use primary sources and their own experiences as students to gain insight into the educational system available to African Americans in Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th and centuries. Individually, students will interpret two documents in an effort to explore how anti-slavery organization, Pennsylvania Abolition Society strove to improve the conditions of free blacks through education and moral instruction. The lesson is also designed to acquaint students with the challenges free African Americans faced in obtaining an education.