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Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom
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- Creator
- Heather Andrea Williams
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24cm
- ISBNs
- 9798893131673, 9780807829202, 9780807858219, 9798890878243, 080782920X, 1469604841, 9780807888971, 0807888974, 0807858218, 9781469604848
- OCLC
- ocm56794658, ocn793526642, ocn966766044
- Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-285) and index.
- 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 dwo 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
Subjects
- African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History.
- Enslaved persons -- Education -- Southern States -- History.
- Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States -- History.
- Self-culture -- Southern States -- History.
- Literacy -- Southern States -- History.
- Education -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History.
- Southern States -- Race relations.