Gendered Curriculum Series by Lourdes Mejia https://padlet.com/lam9184/21c7j3okolbt7s7t The New York African Free School en-us 2021-05-09 03:38:48 UTC 2021-05-12 14:04:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d6.png Quaker models of teaching lam9184 https://padlet.com/lam9184/21c7j3okolbt7s7t/wish/1505815055
  • On the basis of discipline & obedience, school girl’s needlework samplers replicated how much of conformity a girl can follow a taught model.
  • “A well-formed stitch indicates a well-wrought mind and a proper femininity because it shows how closely a girl can conform to a given model” -William Howell (scholar)
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  • They were instructed in cartography & navigation
  • Seafaring was one of the possibilities in which young Black men to could make a competent living. 
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  •  Students started with reading, writing, & math.
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  •  They were taught sewing instruction in addition to the standard curriculum.
  • Besides sewing, girls learned reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar and geography.
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  • Self-interested economic & military reasons —> the British to declare free, all enslaved Blacks in America who joined them in New York harbor as Royal Navy seamen, British privateersmen or as laborers in the British Army = providing a form of financial independence. 
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  • 20th century racial conflicts on New York’s waterfront = had Black maritime workers finding themselves largely shut out of dockyard work due to White artisans’ resistance.”
  • Most of the time, Black mariners who were working on captured British ships were sold back into slavery.
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  • “Between the Revolution & the Civil War, more African Americans were employed in the maritime trades than in any other industry.”
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  • Brooklyn’s agricultural products were often the result of slave labor
  • 1790- over 30% of the county’s several thousand residents were slaves, most of whom worked on farms. 
  • Brooklyn’s location facing the East River & New York Bay also meant that many of its residents, Black and White, were connected to and worked in New York’s maritime sector.
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  • Sewing, weaving, knitting, & spinning = an important part of domestic life for all women regardless of age. 
  • Women made clothing for themselves & other family members.
  • Sewing & spinning were often the primary responsibility of the daughters or other girls in the house.
    • ]]>     2021-05-10 03:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lam9184/21c7j3okolbt7s7t/wish/1507660315     *As you navigate this information...* lam9184 https://padlet.com/lam9184/21c7j3okolbt7s7t/wish/1507678827 Let’s think about how gendered curriculum plays an active role in subjects taught at schools even years later.
    - For example, did you ever take a home-economics, fashion/ sewing, early childhood or construction class in middle or high school? Who made up most of the class (girls or boys) & who participated more?
    - What kind of jobs or ways of earning a living were shown throughout this experience? For who were the jobs specific to?
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  • 1700s: samplers with alphabets & numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic needlework skills needed to operate the family household. 
  • Late 1700s to early 1800s: schools taught more elaborate pieces with decorative motifs, & things like verses, flowers, houses, religious, pastoral, and/or mourning scenes were being stitched. 
  • Families of the young women displayed their embroideries as showpieces of their work, talent, and status.
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  • Groups like the African Dorcas Society (est. 1828) were made up of women who sewed clothing for young Black students so that they could attend the African Free Schools.
    • ]]>     2021-05-10 15:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lam9184/21c7j3okolbt7s7t/wish/1509755736     Girl's Sampler lam9184 https://padlet.com/lam9184/21c7j3okolbt7s7t/wish/1510034400 Here, we find a beautiful example of a needlework sampler from a young girl by the name of Rosena Disery who stitched this as a student at NYAFS in 1820.]]> 2021-05-10 16:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lam9184/21c7j3okolbt7s7t/wish/1510034400 References lam9184 https://padlet.com/lam9184/21c7j3okolbt7s7t/wish/1510063588
  • American Samplers. (n.d.). National Museum of American History: Behring Center. Retrieved May 9, 2021 from https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/american-samplers 
  • A Women’s Work is Never Done: Domestic Work. (2004). American Antiquarian Society Online Exhibitions. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Womanswork/domestic.htm
  • Foy, C. (2016). Blacks on the New York Waterfront During the American Revolution. Redhook Waterstories. https://redhookwaterstories.org/exhibits/show/blacks-on-the-waterfront/blacks-waterfront-american-rev 
  • New-York Historical Society. (2021, February 10). Curator Confidential: “Truth” Revealed — Rosena Disery’s African Free School Sampler [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/0hzRBeYNGV8 
  • Portside NewYork: Connecting New Yorkers to the Benefits of our Harbor. A Living Lab for Better Urban Waterways. (n.d.). Retrieved May 9, 2021 from https://portsidenewyork.org/afam-maritime 
  • The Graduate Center, CUNY. (2001). Blacks-Encyclopedia of New York City. Virtual NY New York City. https://virtualny.ashp.cuny.edu/EncyNYC/Blacks_for_draft_riots.html
  • The History of the School: Curriculum. (n.d.). Examination Days: The New York African Free School Collection. Retrieved May 9, 2021 from  https://www.nyhistory.org/web/africanfreeschool/history/curriculum.html
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  • Communities like Sandy Ground, which was founded in the early 19th century by freed black people from New York, is the oldest community established by free slaves in North America
  • This is another example of how big maritime, fishing or sea life was throughout New York, & schools prepared students for these jobs 
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