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Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom / Heather Andrea Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Heather Andrea.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Education--Southern States--History.
- African Americans.
- Enslaved persons--Education--Southern States--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Freed persons--Education--Southern States--History.
- Freed persons.
- Self-culture--Southern States--History.
- Self-culture.
- Literacy--Southern States--History.
- Literacy.
- Education--Social aspects--Southern States--History.
- Education.
- Slavery--Southern States--History.
- Slavery.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908782-4-3
- 979-88-9313-167-3
- 1-4696-0484-1
- 0-8078-8897-4
- OCLC:
- 793526642
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