Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876
"This work promises to long be a touchstone for scholars and students of post-Civil War black education, of Reconstruction broadly, and of blacks' transition to actual freedom."--Library Journal"[Butchart] poignantly portrays both the freedmen's enthusiasm for learning and the intensity of white resistance to black education. . . . A meticulously researched piece of scholarship of importance to specialists. Recommended."--Choice"Schooling the Freed Peopleis both comprehensive and engaging, offering a definitive social history within a narrative that never loses the voices of educators and learners." --The North Carolina Historical Review"An invaluable addition to the historiography of African American education during and after the Civil War. To date, this text offers the most in-depth analysis of the teachers of freed people."--American Historical Review"In this concise, cogently argued book, Ronald E. Butchart presents a convincing new portrait of the women and men who served as teachers of freedpeople across the American South during Reconstruction."--Journal of Southern History"Butchart has written an important study. . . . It will deepen our understanding of these transformative events for years to come."--Journal of American History"InSchooling the Freed People, Butchart used archival sources and state and national governmental records and school reports to provide a well-researched narrative on African American and white teachers and southern black schooling during Reconstruction."--Journal of African American History"Offers a number of important contributions to the field."--Annals of Iowa"Surprising new quantitative analysis . . . . This new picture will benefit future historians."--History of Education Quarterly"This is a significant book . . . .  Butchart's revelations fundamentally reshape our understanding of freed people's education."--The Historian"A meticulously researched book that has made a major intervention in the scholarship on African-American education after the Civil War."---Journal of NC Association of Historians"[Butchart] skillfully blends quantitative research with anecdotal analysis to produce a nuanced and sweeping account, rich with compassion, insight and precision."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Path-breaking research. . . . The crowning achievement of a veteran scholar, this is the definitive book on freedmen's teachers in the South as well as an outstanding contribution to social history and our understanding of African American education. . . . Will be the benchmark by which all other work in this area of history will be judged in the future."--Lone Star Book Review