Self-taught
Subtitle: African American education in slavery and freedom
By: Heather Andrea Williams.
Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-285) and index.
Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University).
Table of contents: title: In secret places : acquiring literacy in slave communities; title: A coveted possession : literacy in the first days of freedom; title: The men are actually clamoring for books : African American soldiers and the educational mission; title: We must get education for ourselves and our children : advocacy for education; title: We are striving to do buisness on our own hook : organizing schools on the ground; title: We are laboring under many difficulties : African American teachers in freedpeople's schools; title: A long and tedious road to travel for knowledge : textbooks and freedpeople's schools; title: If anybody wants an education, it is me : students in freedpeople's schools; title: First movings of the waters : the creation of common school systems for Black and White students; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix : African Americans, literacy, and the law in the antebellum South.