Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Heather Andrea (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
Colección:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Temas:
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.
Noirs américains > Éducation > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Esclaves > Éducation > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Personnes affranchies > Éducation > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Autodidaxie > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
EDUCATION > Essays.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans > Education
Education > Social aspects
Freed persons > Education
Literacy
Race relations
Self-culture
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Education
Freigelassener
Bildung
Autodidakt
Selbsterziehung
Sklaverei
Sklave
Slaven (arbeid)
Vrijgelaten slaven.
Zelfstudie.
Alfabetisme.
Southern States > Race relations.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Southern States
USA > Südstaaten
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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