| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Note |
Based on the author's thesis (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 -- 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 business 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. |
| Summary |
"In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended."--Jacket. |
| Awards |
Lillian Smith Book Award, 2006 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History.
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African Americans -- Education. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
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Enslaved persons -- Education -- Southern States -- History.
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Enslaved persons -- Education. |
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Enslaved persons. |
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Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States -- History.
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Freed persons -- Education. |
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Freed persons. |
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Self-culture -- Southern States -- History.
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Self-culture. |
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Literacy -- Southern States -- History.
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Literacy. |
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Education -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.
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Education -- Social aspects. |
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Slavery -- Southern States -- History.
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Slavery. |
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Southern States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Williams, Heather Andrea. Self-taught. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005 080782920X (DLC) 2004022755 (OCoLC)56794658 |
| ISBN |
9780807888971 (electronic book) |
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0807888974 (electronic book) |
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9781469604848 (electronic book) |
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1469604841 (electronic book) |
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080782920X |
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9780807829202 |
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9780807858219 |
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0807858218 |
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