Self-taught
- ISBN
- 9780807858219
Self-taught is a race relations, self-culture book by Heather Andrea Williams.
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"In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended."--Jacket.
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What genre is Self-taught?+
Self-taught is a Race relations, Self-culture, Social aspects of Education, History, Freedmen book.
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"In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeopl...
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Self-taught was written by Heather Andrea Williams.