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Learning for Life

Adult Education as Empowerment

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Unfit to Be a Slave
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This book takes its title from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, in which Douglass recounts his story as an enslaved ten-year-old African American boy being prohibited from learning to read by the master of the plantation.

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Greene, D. (2015). Learning for Life. In: Unfit to Be a Slave. Anti-Colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-935-7_1

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