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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Williams, Heather A

Titel

Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom

Ort / Verlag

Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Inhalt: 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.