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Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom / / Heather Andrea Williams



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Autore: Williams Heather Andrea Visualizza persona
Titolo: Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom / / Heather Andrea Williams Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
Disciplina: 370/.89/96073075
Soggetto topico: African Americans - Education - Southern States - History
Slaves - 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
Soggetto geografico: Southern States Race relations
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
Titolo autorizzato: Self-taught  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-9313-167-3
1-4696-0484-1
0-8078-8897-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808718303321
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Serie: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.