Schooling the freed people: teaching, learning, and the struggle for Black freedom, 1861-1876
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Main Author: Butchart, Ronald E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina ©2010
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-300) and index
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
Butchart combed the archives of all of the freedmen's aid organizations as well as the archives of every southern state to compile a vast database of over 11,600 individuals who taught in southern black schools between 1861 and 1876. He reaches some surprising conclusions: one-third of the teachers were African Americans; black teachers taught longer than white teachers; half of the teachers were southerners; and even the northern teachers were more diverse than previously imagined. His evidence demonstrates that evangelicalism contributed much less than previously believed to white teachers'
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 314 pages)
ISBN:0807834203
0807899348
1469604930
9780807834206
9780807899342
9781469604930

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