Author: Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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. Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.
Self-Taught
Author: Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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. Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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. Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.
A Coveted Possession
Author: Michael Atherton
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1743820526
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The intriguing cultural history of the piano in Australia From the instruments that floated ashore at Sydney Cove in the late eighteenth century to the resurrection of derelict heirlooms in the streets of twenty-first-century Melbourne, A Coveted Possession tells the curious story of Australia’s intimate and intrepid relationship with the piano. It charts the piano’s fascinating adventures across Australia – on the goldfields, at the frontlines of war, in the manufacturing hubs of the Federation era, and in the hands of the makers, entrepreneurs, teachers and virtuosos of the twentieth history – to illuminate the many worlds in which the ivories were tinkled. Before electricity brought us the gramophone, the radio and eventually the TV, the piano was central to family and community life. With its iron frame, polished surfaces and ivory keys, an upright piano in the home was a modern industrial machine, a musical instrument and a treasured member of the household, conveying powerful messages about class, education, leisure, national identity and intergenerational history. ‘Michael Atherton cleverly weaves visual, sensual and sonic elements into the piano’s sociocultural history, adding a rich layer to our knowledge of the piano in Australia.’ —Professor Julia Horne, historian
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1743820526
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The intriguing cultural history of the piano in Australia From the instruments that floated ashore at Sydney Cove in the late eighteenth century to the resurrection of derelict heirlooms in the streets of twenty-first-century Melbourne, A Coveted Possession tells the curious story of Australia’s intimate and intrepid relationship with the piano. It charts the piano’s fascinating adventures across Australia – on the goldfields, at the frontlines of war, in the manufacturing hubs of the Federation era, and in the hands of the makers, entrepreneurs, teachers and virtuosos of the twentieth history – to illuminate the many worlds in which the ivories were tinkled. Before electricity brought us the gramophone, the radio and eventually the TV, the piano was central to family and community life. With its iron frame, polished surfaces and ivory keys, an upright piano in the home was a modern industrial machine, a musical instrument and a treasured member of the household, conveying powerful messages about class, education, leisure, national identity and intergenerational history. ‘Michael Atherton cleverly weaves visual, sensual and sonic elements into the piano’s sociocultural history, adding a rich layer to our knowledge of the piano in Australia.’ —Professor Julia Horne, historian
Nippon Shindo Ron
Author: Yutaka Hibino
Publisher: Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of the State of New York
Author: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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The Four-track News
Author:
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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The Forgotten Isles
Author: Gaston Vuillier
Publisher:
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Category : Balearic Islands (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balearic Islands (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Birds of Norfolk
Author: Henry Stevenson
Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Legislative Document
Author: New York (State). Legislature
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Report
Author: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Publisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
New York Legislative Documents
Author: New York (State). Legislature
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description