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Author Butchart, Ronald E.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 314 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description 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'
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Subject Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States.
Freed persons -- Education.
Southern States.
Freed persons.
Education -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Education.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African American teachers -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
African American teachers.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
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)
0807899348 (electronic book)
9781469604930 (electronic book)
1469604930 (electronic book)
9780807834206
0807834203