History
Self-Taught
About this book
Heather Andrea Williams follows Black Americans’ efforts to learn to read under slavery and to build schools in freedom. The book moves from learning in secret to the work of securing teachers, classrooms, and materials for new schools. Its focus on learners and families shows how much of the initiative came from the people seeking an education.
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- ISBN-13
- 9780807829202
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Edition date
- 2005
- First published
- 2005
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Black Hamlets of the Bluegrass
Freedom, land, and the work of building communities in and beyond Kentucky.
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Classrooms of Change
Schools, teachers, and families who insisted on the right to learn.
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Freedom and the right to read
For teachers and students studying emancipation, literacy, and education.
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