audiobook Native American Slavery in the Seventeenth Century by From Duke University Press Books in History

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Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools; Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders; black Mobilians; and their white allies created; developed; and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War.Hilary Green proposes a new chronology in understanding postwar African American education; examining how urban African Americans demanded quality public schools from their new city and state partners. Revealing the significant gains made after the departure of the Freedmen’s Bureau; this study reevaluates African American higher education in terms of developing a cadre of public school educator-activists and highlights the centrality of urban African American protest in shaping educational decisions and policies in their respective cities and states.