Self-taught

Description:

"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.

subjects: Race relations,  Self-culture,  Social aspects of Education,  History,  Freedmen,  Slavery,  Slaves,  Education,  African Americans,  Literacy,  African americans, education,  African americans, history,  Freed persons,  Noirs américains,  Éducation,  Histoire,  Esclaves,  Affranchis,  Autodidaxie,  Relations raciales,  Essays,  Organizations & Institutions,  Reference,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Ethnic Studies,  African American Studies,  Social aspects,  Freigelassener,  Bildung,  Autodidakt,  Selbsterziehung,  Sklaverei,  Sklave,  Südstaaten,  Slaven (arbeid),  Vrijgelaten slaven,  Zelfstudie,  Alfabetisme,  Negers

Places: Southern States