Self-Taught African American Education in Slavery and Freedom

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ISBN: 9780807858219

ISBN-10: 0807858218

ISBN-13: 9780807858219

Edition: 2007

Authors: Heather Andrea Williams

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In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom.Self-Taught

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather



The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London [copyright] ï¿½ 2004


The University of North Carolina Press


All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America


The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources


Parts of this book have been reprinted with permission in revised form from the following works:


Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South, edited Craig Thompson Friend Lorri Glover (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004); and "'Clothing


Themselves in Intelligence':


The Freedpeople, Schooling, and Northern Teachers, 1861-1871


" Journal of African American History 87 (Fall 2002): Acknowledgments


Introduction



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 Dwo 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


Notes


Bibliography


Index