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University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Pages
304

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Subjects
Race relations, Self-culture, Social aspects of Education, History, Freedmen, Slavery, Slaves, Education, African Americans, Literacy, African americans, education, African americans, history, Freed persons, Noirs américains, Éducation, Histoire, Esclaves, Affranchis, Autodidaxie, Relations raciales, EDUCATION, Essays, Organizations & Institutions, Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, Social aspects, Freigelassener, Bildung, Autodidakt, Selbsterziehung, Sklaverei, Sklave, Südstaaten, Slaven (arbeid), Vrijgelaten slaven, Zelfstudie, Alfabetisme, Negers
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Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
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Table of Contents

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 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-285) and index.
Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University).

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The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

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Dewey Decimal Class
370/.89/96073075
Library of Congress
LC2802.S9 W55 2005, LC2802.S9W55 2004, LC2802.S9 W55 2005eb

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xiii, 304 p. ;
Number of pages
304

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2004022755
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793526642, 56794658
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1277228
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