ISBN:
9780300245394
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (256 pages)
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30 b-w illus
DDC:
302.2/244
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1899
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
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African Americans Books and reading 19th century
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History
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Books and reading History 19th century
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Literacy History 19th century
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Slaves Books and reading 19th century
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History
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Whites Books and reading 19th century
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History
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Writing History 19th century
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Schrift
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Lektüre
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Belesenheit
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USA Südstaaten
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Lektüre
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Belesenheit
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Schrift
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USA Südstaaten
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Geschichte 1800-1899
Abstract:
A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South's oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible-which has its origins in the eighteenth century-has obscured the rich literate tradition at the heart of Southern and American culture
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
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In English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300245394
