Reading, Riting, and Reconstruction the Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861187

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Employing a wide range of sources! the author 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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert C. Morris, Robert C Morris, MORRIS ROBERT C
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.10.2010
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education
• EAN: 9780226539294
• ISBN: 978-0-226-53929-4
• Pages: 358
• Series: African American Studies; African American Studies
• Subjects: USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Ethnic Studies, EDUCATION / General, Education, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General