ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how African Americans understand education as a space of radical hope, and role of radical hope within pathways on the journey toward Black freedom and the acceptance of the humanity of Black people. It provides two examples of how African Americans understood education as a space of radical hope, and the role of radical hope within pathways on the journey toward Black freedom and acceptance of the humanity of Black people. The first example is set during enslavement in the US; however, it begins with the Kidnapping—the cultural devastation of the lives of 12.5 million Africans, of which 10.7 million survived the horrors of the Middle Passage to land in North and South America and the Caribbean. Second example moves from Enslavement to Emancipation and then to Reconstruction and rise of Black social and political life. Education was enslaved, segregated, and so-called freed Black people’s spark of radical hope as they struggled against social and political death.
