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Cornelius, Janet Duitsman.

"When I can read my title clear" : literacy, slavery, and religion in the antebellum South / Janet Duitsman Cornelius. - Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1991. - 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-204) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction.
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HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.


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English.

ISBN: 0585322910 (electronic bk.) 9780585322919 (electronic bk.) 9780872498716 0872498719 (pbk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper)

LCCN:

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 007787244 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slavery--History.--United States
Literacy--History.--United States
Slaves--Education--United States.
Slavery and the church--United States.
Education--Social aspects--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Education--Social aspects.
Literacy.
Slavery.
Slavery and the church.
Slaves--Education.
Sklave
Bildung
Kirche
Alfabetisme.
Bijbel.
15.85 history of America.
Esclavage--Histoire.--États-Unis
Esclaves--Éducation--États-Unis.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.
USA--Südstaaten

Subjects--Index Terms: Education Social United States Literacy United History Slavery United History Slavery United States Slaves Education United States

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.

LC Class. No.: E443 / .C7 1991eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.5/67/0973