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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Williams, Heather Andrea (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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.
Description:Based on the author's thesis (Yale University).
Description matérielle:1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations
Récompenses:Lillian Smith Book Award, 2006
ISBN:9781469604848