Self-taught African American education in slavery and freedom /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2005.
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| Serie: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Accesso online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sommario:
- 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.