Schooling the freed people : teaching, learning, and the struggle for black freedom, 1861-1876 / Ronald E. Butchart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butchart, Ronald E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freed persons--Education--Southern States.

Freed persons.

Education--Southern States--History--19th century.

Education.

African American teachers--Southern States--History--19th century.

African American teachers.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

History.

Freed persons--Education.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xxii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, [2010]

Contents:

At the dawn of freedom

To serve my own people: black teachers in the Southern black schools

It will result in a better understanding of their duties: Southern white teachers and the limits of emancipation

A desire to labor in the missionary cause: Northern white teachers and the ambiguities of emancipation

You will, of course, wish to know all about our school: learning and teaching in the freed people's schools

Race, reconstruction, and redemption: the fate of emancipation and education, 1861-1876

Appendix A: teachers in the freed people's schools, 1861-1876

Appendix B: estimating the number of black and Southern white teachers, 1869-1876.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-300) and index.

ISBN:

9780807834206

0807834203

OCLC:

598304987