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The Rising Tide: Notions of Education in 19th Century Liberia

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The project examines the foundation of education in 19th century Liberia by distinctly American entities. Philanthropists, missionaries, and educational and colonization societies imagined that creating both primary and secondary education in Liberia would be the path to a new nation which would spread “civilization” further into Africa. Viewed through the lives of the women who worked as educators, wives of missionaries, and as passing mentions in the diaries of the men who detailed the period, this chapter seeks to show the crucial, and often invisible, role women played in the education of Liberia’s future.

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