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UNINA9910456428503321 |
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Autore |
Williams Heather Andrea |
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Titolo |
Self-taught [[electronic resource] ] : African American education in slavery and freedom / / Heather Andrea Williams |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0484-1 |
0-8078-8897-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Collana |
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The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans - Education - Southern States - History |
Enslaved persons - Education - Southern States - History |
Freedmen - Education - Southern States - History |
Self-culture - Southern States - History |
Literacy - Southern States - History |
Education - Social aspects - Southern States - History |
Slavery - Southern States - History |
Electronic books. |
Southern States Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-285) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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In secret places : acquiring literacy in slave communities -- A coveted possession : literacy in the first days of freedom -- The men are actually clamoring for books : African American soldiers and the educational mission -- We must get education for ourselves and our children : advocacy for education -- We are striving to do business on our own hook : organizing schools on the ground -- We are laboring under many difficulties : African American teachers in freedpeople's schools -- A long and tedious road to travel for knowledge : textbooks and freedpeople's schools -- If anybody wants an education, it is me : students in freedpeople's schools -- First movings of the waters : the creation of common school systems for Black and White students -- Epilogue -- Appendix : African Americans, literacy, and the law in the antebellum South. |
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