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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Heather Andrea (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Alfabetisme.
Zelfstudie.
Vrijgelaten slaven.
Slaven (arbeid)
Sklave
Sklaverei
Selbsterziehung
Autodidakt
Bildung
Freigelassener
Slaves > Education.
Slavery.
Self-culture.
Race relations.
Literacy.
Freed persons > Education.
Education > Social aspects.
African Americans > Education.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
EDUCATION > Reference.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Essays.
Autodidaxie > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Affranchis > Éducation > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Esclaves > Éducation > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Éducation > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Slavery > Southern States > History.
Education > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Literacy > Southern States > History.
Self-culture > Southern States > History.
Freed persons > Education > Southern States > History.
Slaves > Education > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Education > Southern States > History.
USA > Südstaaten
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Southern States > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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