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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Williams, Heather Andrea.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
Series:	John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Subjects and Genres:	African Americans > Education > Southern States > History. Enslaved persons > Education > Southern States > History. Freed persons > Education > Southern States > History. Self-culture > Southern States > History. Literacy > Southern States > History. Education > Social aspects > Southern States > History. Slavery > Southern States > History. Southern States > Race relations.
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Table of Contents:

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 dwo 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.