Self-taught [[electronic resource] ] : African American education in slavery and freedom / / Heather Andrea Williams
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 370/.89/96073075 |
| Soggetto topico: | African Americans - Education - Southern States - History |
| Enslaved persons - Education - Southern States - History | |
| Freed persons - 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: | 1-4696-0484-1 |
| 0-8078-8897-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780980403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.