Self-taught
African American education in slavery and freedom
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Author
Publication
2005 - University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3297397M
- ISBN-10080782920X
- OCLC Control Number793526642
- OCLC Control Number56794658
- OCLC Control Number1004946366
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- Internet Archiveselftaughtafrica0000will
- Library of Congress Control Number2004022755
- Goodreads970923
- LibraryThing1277228
Classifications
- DDC370/.89/96073075
- LCCLC2802.S9 W55 2005
Description
"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."--Jacket.
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Series Statement
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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