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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005

1 online resource (xiii, 304 p.)

ISBN 080782920X (alk. paper)

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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