Self-taught [electronic resource] : African American education in slavery and freedom / Heather Andrea Williams.
Material type:
- African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History
- Slaves -- Education -- Southern States -- History
- Freedmen -- Education -- Southern States -- History
- Self-culture -- Southern States -- History
- Literacy -- Southern States -- History
- Education -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History
- Southern States -- Race relations
- 370/.89/96073075 22
- LC2802.S9 W55 2005eb
Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-285) and index.
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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