Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom

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Main Author: Williams, Heather Andrea.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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245 1 0 |a Self-taught :  |b African American education in slavery and freedom  |c Heather Andrea Williams 
260 |a Chapel Hill :  |b University of North Carolina Press,  |c c2005. 
300 |a xiii, 304 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24cm. 
490 1 |a The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture 
500 |a Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University). 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-285) and index. 
505 0 |a 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 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. 
590 |a The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection. 
650 0 |a African Americans  |x Education  |z Southern States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Slaves  |x Education  |z Southern States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Freedmen  |x Education  |z Southern States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Self-culture  |z Southern States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Literacy  |z Southern States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Education  |x Social aspects  |z Southern States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Slavery  |z Southern States  |x History. 
651 0 |a Southern States  |x Race relations. 
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