When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South

by Janet Duitsman Cornelius

Book Overview

This is the first study to focus on the roots of slavery in the African-American drive for literacy and schooling that exploded immediately after the American Civil War. The author examines why blacks valued literacy, how it played an integral part in the black church, and how it served as an instrument of political resistance in the African-American community under slavery. Cornelius also explores the complexities and contradictions in the roles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872498719
• ISBN13: 9780872498716
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"