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Self-taught

by Williams, Heather Andrea.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture Published by : University of North Carolina Press, (Chapel Hill :) Physical details: xiii, 304 p.
Subject(s): African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History. | Slaves -- Education -- Southern States -- History. | Freedmen -- 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2005
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Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-285) and index.

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 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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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