- Race relations, Self-culture, Social aspects of Education, History
"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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- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Heather Andrea Williams
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- ReadHowYouWant, The University of North Carolina Press, University of North Carolina Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780807829202
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