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1 online resource (xxii, 314 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-300) and index. |
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. |
Summary |
Butchart combed the archives of all of the freedmen's aid organizations as well as the archives of every southern state to compile a vast database of over 11,600 individuals who taught in southern black schools between 1861 and 1876. He reaches some surprising conclusions: one-third of the teachers were African Americans; black teachers taught longer than white teachers; half of the teachers were southerners; and even the northern teachers were more diverse than previously imagined. His evidence demonstrates that evangelicalism contributed much less than previously believed to white teachers' |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
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Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States.
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Freed persons -- Education. |
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Southern States. |
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Freed persons. |
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Education -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Education. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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African American teachers -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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African American teachers. |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Butchart, Ronald E. Schooling the freed people. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, ©2010 9780807834206 (DLC) 2010011936 (OCoLC)598304987 |
ISBN |
9780807899342 (electronic book) |
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0807899348 (electronic book) |
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9781469604930 (electronic book) |
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1469604930 (electronic book) |
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9780807834206 |
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0807834203 |
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