- Title
- Liberation philology: decolonizing Classics in Africa, a native view from the South
- Creator
- Van Schoor, David J, Ackah, Kofi, Okyere Asante, Michael K
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468479
- Identifier
- vital:77064
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbac005
- Description
- If you were a manumitted slave, the child of a slave or de-scendant of enslaved or dispossessed people or, say, you were a member of your society’s lowest castes and you were given the opportunity to study, and perhaps even to take up scholarship as your life’s work, your vocation, what subject would you, should you elect to learn? William Sanders Scar-borough was born in slavery in the deep South of the United States. His father, Jeremiah, was libertus, a freeman. None-theless, William De Graffenreid, the owner of Scarborough’s mother Frances, magnanimously allowed Jeremiah to marry her, his property. She gave birth to her son in Macon, Geor-gia, in 1852. Scarborough would go on to become one of the first Black Hellenists in the United States. Over a productive life he was a schoolteacher, a professor at Wilberforce Uni-versity in Ohio, an early Black member of the American Philo-logical Association (the first was Richard Greener, his friend and fellow classicist), the first Black member of the Modern Languages Association, the president of Wilberforce, and a founding member of the Negro Academy and of the NAACP.
- Format
- 17 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, van Schoor, D., Ackah, K. and Okyere Asante, M.K., 2022. Liberation philology: decolonizing Classics in Africa, a native view from the South. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 65(1), pp.1-17, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies volume 65 number 1 1 17 2022 2041-5370
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