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Schooling the freed people : teaching, learning, and the struggle for Black freedom, 1861-1876 /
Butchart combed the archives of all of the freedmen's aid organizations as well as the archives of every southern state to compile a vast database of over 11,600 individuals who taught in southern black schools between 1861 and 1876. He reaches some surprising conclusions: one-third of the teac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Butchart combed the archives of all of the freedmen's aid organizations as well as the archives of every southern state to compile a vast database of over 11,600 individuals who taught in southern black schools between 1861 and 1876. He reaches some surprising conclusions: one-third of the teachers were African Americans; black teachers taught longer than white teachers; half of the teachers were southerners; and even the northern teachers were more diverse than previously imagined. His evidence demonstrates that evangelicalism contributed much less than previously believed to white teachers' |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 314 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-300) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807899342 0807899348 9781469604930 1469604930 |