MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aLC2802.S9$bW55 2005
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100 1 $aWilliams, Heather Andrea.
245 10 $aSelf-taught :$bAfrican American education in slavery and freedom /$cHeather Andrea Williams.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$cc2005.
300 $axiii, 304 p. :$bill. ;$c24cm.
440 4 $aThe John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
500 $aBased on the author's dissertation (Yale University).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-285) and index.
505 0 $aIn 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 buisness 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.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xEducation$zSouthern States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlaves$xEducation$zSouthern States$xHistory.
650 0 $aFreedmen$xEducation$zSouthern States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSelf-culture$zSouthern States$xHistory.
650 0 $aLiteracy$zSouthern States$xHistory.
650 0 $aEducation$xSocial aspects$zSouthern States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlavery$zSouthern States$xHistory.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xRace relations.
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