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Title:
Schooling the freed people : teaching, learning, and the struggle for Black freedom, 1861-1876
Author:
Butchart, Ronald E.
ISBN:
9780807899342

9781469604930
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 314 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
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'
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