"When I can read my title clear" : literacy, slavery, and religion in the antebellum South / Janet Duitsman Cornelius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornelius, Janet Duitsman, author.

Contributor:

University of South Carolina. Press., publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Literacy--United States--History.

Literacy.

Enslaved persons--Education--United States.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery and the church--United States.

Slavery and the church.

Education--Social aspects--United States.

Education.

Education--Social aspects.

Enslaved persons--Education.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (bookplate) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 215 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

1st paperback printing

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1992, 1991.

Contents:

Slaves, religion and reading in early North America

South Carolina : repression and protest

Slave testimony : "we slipped and leaned to read"

"The onliest one who could read the Bible" : southern black leadership in literacy and religion

"Bible slavery" : the white role in slave literacy

"Only the Bible can save us" : literacy and national survival.

Notes:

"Copyright ©1991 University of South Carolina"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-204) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy has a photocopy of an online offer for this work, and of a review, laid in.

ISBN:

0872498719

9780872498716

OCLC:

29377480