Reading, 'Riting, and Reconstruction: The Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870 (African American Studies) - Softcover

Morris, Robert C.

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9780226539294: Reading, 'Riting, and Reconstruction: The Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870 (African American Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0226539296 ISBN 13: 9780226539294
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2010

Synopsis

This study of education for freedmen following Emancipation is the definitive treatment of the subject. Employing a wide range of sources, Robert C. Morris examines the organizations that staffed and managed black schools in the South, with particular attention paid to the activities of the Freedman’s Bureau. He looks as well at those who came to teach, a diverse group—white, black, Northern, Southern—and at the curricula and textbooks they used. While giving special emphasis to the Freedmen’s Bureau school program, Morris places the freedmen’s educational movement fully in its nineteenth-century context, relating it both to the antislavery crusade that preceded it and to the conservative era of race relations that followed.

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About the Author


Robert C. Morris (1942–2003) held positions at Columbia University and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library before becoming director of the National Archives, Northeast Region.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226539296
ISBN 13 
9780226539294
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
367
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