Self-taught African American education in slavery and freedom / [electronic resource] :
Heather Andrea Williams.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
- xiii, 304 p.
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture .
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. .
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
African Americans--Education--History.--Southern States Slaves--Education--History.--Southern States Freedmen--Education--History.--Southern States Self-culture--History.--Southern States Literacy--History.--Southern States Education--Social aspects--History.--Southern States Slavery--History.--Southern States