TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Heather Andrea
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom 
T2  - The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
AV  - LC2802.S9 W55 2005eb
U1  - 370/.89/96073075 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Education
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Freedmen
KW  - Self-culture
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10355388
ER  -