Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and FreedomUniv of North Carolina Press, 20 нояб. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 320 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 and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners. |
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African American Soldiers and the Educational Mission | 45 |
Advocacy for Education | 67 |
Organizing Schools on the Ground | 80 |
African American Teachers in Freedpeoples Schools | 96 |
Textbooks and Freedpeoples Schools | 126 |
Students in Freedpeoples Schools | 138 |
The Creation of Common School Systems for Black and White Students | 174 |
Epilogue | 201 |
African Americans Literacy and the Law in the Antebellum South | 203 |
Notes | 215 |
Bibliography | 265 |
Index | 287 |
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Стр. 31 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Стр. 25 - If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master — to do as he is told to do. Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now," said he, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him.
Стр. 73 - ... to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphan : — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
Стр. 26 - I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy.
Стр. 206 - States or because of interference on the part of abolitionists, a statute was passed in 1847 which provided that " no person shall keep or teach any school for the instruction of any negroes or mulattoes, in reading or writing in this State
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