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Schooling the Freed People

Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876

Ronald E. Butchart

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/2010
Pages: 336
Subject: Social Science, Education, History | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807899342

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Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism. Backed by pathbreaking research, Ronald E. Butchart's Schooling the Freed People shatters this notion. The most comprehensive quantitative study of the origins of black education in freedom ever undertaken, this definitive book on freedmen's teachers in the South is an outstanding contribution to social history and our understanding of African American education.

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