Education Across the African Diaspora, 1500–2020

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Education in the African Diaspora unfolded under difficult conditions yet provided its communities with individual advancement, conceptual discoveries, and institutional achievements. Examining regions across the of African Diaspora, this essay explores education in the era of enslavement and emancipation (up to 1880); in times of industrialization and segregation (up to 1950); and the era of decolonization, civil rights, and high-level educational achievement up to the present. The concept of the African Diaspora is shown to be a major accomplishment of these educational interactions.

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Patrick Manning

Patrick Manning has specialized in the contributions of Africans and Africa’s descendants in world history. He has written widely on Francophone African economic and social history for the 19th and 20th centuries and on slavery and African populations from the 16th to the 19th century. He is the author of The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (2009) and other works on the African Diaspora and has been active in the affairs of the African Diaspora Consortium. He was founding director of World History Centers at Northeastern University (1993–2004) and University of Pittsburgh (2008–2015). His most recent book on world history is A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System (2020). He served as President of the American Historical Association in 2016.