Bøker av Ronald E. Butchart

The most comprehensive quantitative study of the origins of black education in freedom ever undertaken, this definitive book on freedmen's teachers in the South is an outstanding contribution to social history and our understanding of African American education.

While exploring your nearby history, you will find that your community's schools have helped to shape its traditions and culture. This book helps you figure out what the schools in your community do and how they fit into the social and cultural context of your area.

?Butchart's work is a revisionist interpretation of the work of the secular and religious aid societies and the Freedmen's Bureau in educating free blacks....A carefully researched, well-written, controversial book. Recommended.?-Library Journal