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