Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom / / Heather Andrea Williams.

• Superior document: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Williams, Heather Andrea.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
• Physical Description: xiii, 304 p.
• Notes: Based on the author's dissertation (Yale University).

Table of 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 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.