Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876

By Ronald Butchart

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469607298
• ISBN13: 9781469607290
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"