Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
UNC Press law publications. Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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 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.