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Author Williams, Heather Andrea.

Title Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom / Heather Andrea Williams.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
©2005
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  LC2802.S9 W55 2005    Available  ---
Description xiii, 304 pages ; 24cm.
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Note Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-285) and index.
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 buisness 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.
Subject African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History.
African Americans -- Education.
Southern States.
History.
Enslaved persons -- Education -- Southern States -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Education.
Enslaved persons.
Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States -- History.
Freed persons -- Education.
Freed persons.
Self-culture -- Southern States -- History.
Self-culture.
Literacy -- Southern States -- History.
Literacy.
Education -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.
Education -- Social aspects.
Slavery -- Southern States -- History.
Slavery.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
ISBN 080782920X alkaline paper

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