Unshackled: Education for Freedom, Student Achievement, and Personal Emancipation

by Greg Wiggan, Lakia Scott, Marcia Watson

The book discusses the early formations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the enslavement of native populations, and the subsequent development of the Underground Railroad and Maroon societies in the Caribbean and Americas as systems of liberation. It investigates the development and maintenance of racial, gendered and class stratifi cation, and provides a personal path to freedom as a context for a broader discussion on using education as a mechanism for dismantling the effects of colonization, miseducation, and social-psychological domination in schools and society.

114 pages, Hardcover

First published February 7, 2014