Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom
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Beteilige Person: Williams, Heather A. 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill [u.a.] Univ. of North Carolina Press 2006
Schriftenreihe:The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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Beschreibung:Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University).
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 buisness 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
Umfang:304 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780807858219
9780807829202
080782920X
0807858218