Self-Taught
African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended.Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8078-5821-9
- EAN: 9780807858219
- Produktnummer: 2652635
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 322 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.0 cm 448 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 448
Über den Autor
HEATHER ANDREA WILLIAMS, a former attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and the New York State Attorney General's Office, is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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