Schooling the freed people : teaching, learning, and the struggle for black freedom, 1861-1876 / Ronald E. Butchart.

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Main Author: Butchart, Ronald E.
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Freed persons > Education > Southern States.
Education > Southern States > History > 19th century.
African American teachers > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Physical Description:xxii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • At the dawn of freedom
  • To serve my own people: black teachers in the Southern black schools
  • It will result in a better understanding of their duties: Southern white teachers and the limits of emancipation
  • A desire to labor in the missionary cause: Northern white teachers and the ambiguities of emancipation
  • You will, of course, wish to know all about our school: learning and teaching in the freed people's schools
  • Race, reconstruction, and redemption: the fate of emancipation and education, 1861-1876
  • Appendix A: teachers in the freed people's schools, 1861-1876
  • Appendix B: estimating the number of black and Southern white teachers, 1869-1876.