Self-Taught : African American Education in Slavery and Freedom /
"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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Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2005]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.