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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456428503321

Autore

Williams Heather Andrea

Titolo

Self-taught [[electronic resource] ] : African American education in slavery and freedom / / Heather Andrea Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005

ISBN

1-4696-0484-1

0-8078-8897-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Disciplina

370/.89/96073075

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom