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Williams, Heather Andrea.
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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.
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Self-taught : Africa...
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Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom / Heather Andrea Williams.
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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.
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080782920X (alk. paper) :
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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.
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