Title From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse : African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875 / Christopher M. Span.

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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

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Contents	Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: 1862-1870; 1 LIBERATION THROUGH LITERACY; 2 EDUCATED LABOR; 3 EDUCATION FOR SERVITUDE; PART TWO: 1870-1875; 4 UNIVERSAL SCHOOLING; 5 PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 1871-1875; Epilogue; APPENDIX: KNOWN AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICIANS AND LEGISLATIORS IN MISSISSIPPI DURING RECONSTRUCTION, 1870 -1875; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
Summary	In the years immediately following the Civil War, debates over the general purpose of schools for African Americans (mostly freedpeople) centered on whether the schools should seek to develop blacks as citizens, train them to be free but subordinate laborers, or produce some other outcome. This book is the first comprehensive examination of Mississippi's politics and policies of postwar racial education. Span finds that newly freed slaves made heroic efforts to participate in their own education, but too often the schooling was used to control and redirect the aspirations of the newly freed.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-235) and index.
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Subject	African Americans -- Education -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Education.
	Mississippi.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Freed persons -- Mississippi -- History.
	Freed persons.
	Education -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century.
	Education.
	Education and state -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century.
	Education and state.
	Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
	Race relations.
	Mississippi -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	1865-1950
	1800-1950
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Span, Christopher M. From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse : African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832905
ISBN	9781469601335 (electronic book)
	1469601338 (electronic book)
	9781469619712
	1469619717
	9780807832905 (cloth : alkaline paper)
	0807832901 (cloth : alkaline paper)

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