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Author Cornelius, Janet Duitsman

Title "When I can read my title clear" : literacy, slavery, and religion in the antebellum South / Janet Duitsman Cornelius
Published Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) : illustrations
Contents Slaves, religion and reading in early North America -- South Carolina: repression and protest -- Slave testimony: "we slipped and learned to read" -- "The onliest one who could read the bible": Southern Black leadership in literacy and religion -- "Bible slavery": the white role in slave literacy -- "Only the Bible can save us": literacy and national survival
Analysis Education Social United States
Literacy United History
Slavery United History
Slavery United States
Slaves Education United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-204) and index
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Subject Slavery -- United States -- History.
Literacy -- United States -- History
Enslaved persons -- Education -- United States
Slavery and the church -- United States
Education -- Social aspects -- United States
15.85 history of America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Education -- Social aspects
Literacy
Slavery
Slavery and the church
Enslaved persons -- Education
Sklave
Bildung
Kirche
Alfabetisme.
Bijbel.
United States
USA -- Südstaaten
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 90028086
ISBN 0585322910
9780585322919
9780872498716
0872498719