Self-taught African American education in slavery and freedom /

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Autor Principal: Williams, Heather Andrea
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Table of 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 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.