From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse : African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875 /

In the years immediately following the Civil War, debates over the general purpose of schools for African Americans (mostly freedpeople) centered on whether the schools should seek to develop blacks as citizens, train them to be free but subordinate laborers, or produce some other outcome. This book...

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Main Author: Span, Christopher M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
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