Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876
by
Ronald E. Butchart
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Conventional 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...