Descripción
Sumario: | "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 freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended."--Jacket.
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Notas: | Based on the author's thesis (Yale University). |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations |
Premios: | Lillian Smith Book Award, 2006 |
ISBN: | 9781469604848 |