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Schooling the freed people teaching, learning, and the struggle for Black freedom, 1861-1876 Cover Image

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Schooling the freed people teaching, learning, and the struggle for Black freedom, 1861-1876

Summary: 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'

Record details

ISBN: 0807834203
ISBN: 9780807834206
ISBN: 1469604930 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781469604930 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0807899348 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780807899342 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 314 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, ©2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-300) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted by subscription.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.