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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807858218
ISBN-13
9780807858219
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57080522
Product Key Features
Book Title
Self-Taught : African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
United States / 19th Century, History, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American
Features
New Edition
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Education, History
Book Series
The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture Ser.
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15 oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-022755
Reviews
"With great skill, Heather Williams demonstrates the centrality of black people to the process of formal education--the establishment of schools, the creation of a cadre of teachers, the forging of standards of literacy and numeracy--in the post-emancipation years. As she does, Williams makes the case that the issue of education informed the Reconstruction period--the two-cornered struggle between North and South over the rebuilding of Southern society, the three-cornered struggle between white Northerners, white Southerners, and black people over the nature of education, and the less well-known contest between black Northerners and black Southerners over the direction of African American culture. "Self-Taught is a work of major significance. (Ira Berlin, University of Maryland)", "Groundbreaking. . . Williams marshals enormous primary evidence to reveal a previously untold story. . . . Ultimately, a book of triumphant reading--both enslaved and freedpeople's acts of reading." —Southern Cultures, "An original, informative, and moving account. . . . [A] major corrective study of the struggle of African Americans." —Arkansas Historical Quarterly, "Groundbreaking. . . Williams marshals enormous primary evidence to reveal a previously untold story. . . . Ultimately, a book of triumphant reading--both enslaved and freedpeople's acts of reading." _ Southern Cultures, This delightfully well-written and swift reading scholarly monograph may well be considered a classic in its field.Civil War Book Review, "Provides a needed corrective to the existing literature. . . . [A] readable and carefully researched work. . . . Represents an important expansion of knowledge about Reconstruction, the South, the political and cultural struggles of African Americans, and the nation's educational system." —North Carolina Historical Review, "An original, informative, and moving account. . . . [A] major corrective study of the struggle of African Americans." _ Arkansas Historical Quarterly, This book is a well-told story of a courageous people's quest to obtain an education. Louisiana HIstory, A book that eloquently places African Americans at the center of the struggle for education.Reviews in American History, Beautifully written and cogently argued, Self-Taught deserves the attention of all scholars interested in early history of African-American schools. Journal of Economic History, This delightfully well-written and swift reading scholarly monograph may well be considered a classic in its field. Civil War Book Review, [A] passionate historical analysis. . . . Upon finishing Self-Taught the reader will be changed. Black Issues Book Review, A book that eloquently places African Americans at the center of the struggle for education. Reviews in American History, "Groundbreaking. . . Williams marshals enormous primary evidence to reveal a previously untold story. . . . Ultimately, a book of triumphant reading--both enslaved and freedpeople's acts of reading." -- Southern Cultures, YA? passionate historical analysis. . . . Upon finishing "Self-Taught" the reader will be changed."Black Issues Book Review", "Groundbreaking. . . Williams marshals enormous primary evidence to reveal a previously untold story. . . . Ultimately, a book of triumphant reading--both enslaved and freedpeople's acts of reading." — Southern Cultures, "Provides a needed corrective to the existing literature. . . . [A] readable and carefully researched work. . . . Represents an important expansion of knowledge about Reconstruction, the South, the political and cultural struggles of African Americans, and the nation's educational system." -- North Carolina Historical Review, "Provides a needed corrective to the existing literature. . . . [A] readable and carefully researched work. . . . Represents an important expansion of knowledge about Reconstruction, the South, the political and cultural struggles of African Americans, and the nation's educational system." — North Carolina Historical Review, "An original, informative, and moving account. . . . [A] major corrective study of the struggle of African Americans." -- Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Beautifully written and cogently argued, Self-Taught deserves the attention of all scholars interested in early history of African-American schools.Journal of Economic History, This book is a well-told story of a courageous people's quest to obtain an education.Louisiana HIstory, [A] passionate historical analysis. . . . Upon finishing "Self-Taught" the reader will be changed."Black Issues Book Review", "An original, informative, and moving account. . . . [A] major corrective study of the struggle of African Americans." — Arkansas Historical Quarterly, "Provides a needed corrective to the existing literature. . . . [A] readable and carefully researched work. . . . Represents an important expansion of knowledge about Reconstruction, the South, the political and cultural struggles of African Americans, and the nation's educational system." _ North Carolina Historical Review
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
370/.89/96073075
Edition Description
New Edition
Table Of Content
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather Andrea Williams The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London [copyright] © 2004 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Parts of this book have been reprinted with permission in revised form from the following works: Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South, edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004); and "'Clothing Themselves in Intelligence': The Freedpeople, Schooling, and Northern Teachers, 1861-1871," Journal of African American History 87 (Fall 2002): 372-90. ISBN 0-8078-2920-X (cloth: alk. paper) 08 07 06 05 04 5 4 3 2 1 [contents] --> Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 In Secret Places: Acquiring Literacy in Slave Communities 2 A Coveted Possession: Literacy in the First Days of Freedom 3 The Men Are Actually Clamoring for Books: African American Soldiers and the Educational Mission 4 We Must Get Education for Ourselves and Our Children: Advocacy for Education 5 We Are Striving to Dwo Buisness on Our Own Hook: Organizing Schools on the Ground 6 We Are Laboring under Many Difficulties: African American Teachers in Freedpeople's Schools 7 A Long and Tedious Road to Travel for Knowledge: Textbooks and Freedpeople's Schools 8 If Anybody Wants an Education, It Is Me: Students in Freedpeople's Schools 9 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 Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
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., Offering the story of African American self-education, this title examines African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of 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 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. 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. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. 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., 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., 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., Discussing how African Americans in the South sought education during and after the Civil War, this work highlights the efforts former slaves made on their own behalf by teaching, building schools, and attending school themselves. (African-American Studies)
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