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Span, Christopher M. Span, Christopher M. Anderson, James D. Beadie, Nancy Pak, Yoon K. Sanders, Katrina Johnson, Alisha D. 2017-08-10T19:52:03Z 2017-08-10T19:52:03Z 2019-08-11T09:15:28Z 2017-04-19 2017-05 This study provides a historical analysis of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions that influenced the unprecedented educational attainment of Louisiana’s gens de couleur libres (free people of color) from colonization to the dawn of the American Civil War. Many in this community came to possess notable wealth – to the extent that they have been esteemed as the wealthiest group of free blacks in the nation in the nineteenth century. Moreover, libres were able to attain the highest levels of education: private schools were created, pupils were sent north for schooling, tutors were hired, and many finished their schooling in France. Given that this community, on the whole, achieved substantially higher levels of wealth and education than any of their North American counterparts, this work relies on archival research methods to answer the central question: What enabled an entire community of color to find scholarly success in an overtly racially oppressive society? Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-05-01 The student, Alisha Johnson, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-17 at 15:42. The student, Alisha Johnson, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-04-17 at 16:32. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-04-19 at 08:59. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10818 on 2017-08-10 at 14:30:59 Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T19:52:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 JOHNSON-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf: 2401908 bytes, checksum: e6744ab0e4188ee90bf9dff1f59d505d (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4211 bytes, checksum: 5ec3f5a3a8fe9da0e82f4e801ed980ec (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4557 bytes, checksum: 7a8fc85bd5026502961830e596b752b2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-19 Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 102637 Lift date: 2019-08-10T21:25:30Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 102637 on 2019-08-11T09:15:28Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97584 en Copyright 2017 Alisha Johnson Black education Southern education Antebellum education Black achievement Race Class Educational opportunity Respectable from their intelligence: the education of Louisiana's gens de couleur libres, 1800 to 1860 text text Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp Educational Policy Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.