Schooling the Freed People
Author: Ronald E. Butchart
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010-09-27
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0807899348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConventional 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.