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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Williams, Heather Andrea.     Subjects     African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History.     Enslaved persons -- Education -- Southern States -- History.     Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States -- History.     Self-culture -- Southern States -- History.     Literacy -- Southern States -- History.     Education -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.     Slavery -- Southern States -- History.     Southern States -- Race relations.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Williams, Heather Andrea.       by title:      Self-taught : Africa...         MARC Display

Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom / Heather Andrea Williams. by Williams, Heather Andrea. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005. Subjects African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History.   Enslaved persons -- Education -- Southern States -- History.   Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States -- History.   Self-culture -- Southern States -- History.   Literacy -- Southern States -- History.   Education -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.   Slavery -- Southern States -- History.   Southern States -- Race relations. ISBN:  080782920X (alk. paper) : Series:  John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture Description:  xiii, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. 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. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 370.89 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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