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Bibliography
Cornelius, Janet Duitsman. “When I can read my title clear”: Literacy, slavery, and religion in the Antebellum South. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1991. This resource can be an aid to teachers by providing information on how slaves were able to obtain literacy, while also discussing the obstacles and barriers present in their efforts of obtaining literacy.
Douglas, Andrea. “About Us.” Jefferson School. Accessed July 16, 2024. https://jeffschoolheritagecenter.org/about-us/. This resource can be an aid to teachers by providing information about the establishment of freedmen schools in Virginia.
Douglas, Andrea N., Scot French, Paul M. Gaston, Patrice Preston-Grimes, and Lauranett L. Lee. Pride overcomes prejudice: A history of Charlottesville’s African American School. Charlottesville, Va: Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, 2013. This resource can be an aid to teachers by providing information about the establishment of freedmen schools in Virginia.
Douglass, Frederick, and John Lobb. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass from 1817-1882. London: Christian Age Office, 1882. This resource can be an aid to teachers by providing information on how slaves were able to obtain literacy, while also discussing the obstacles and barriers present in their efforts of obtaining literacy.
Julienne, Contributor: Marianne E., and Contributor: Brent Tarter. “The Establishment of the Public School System in Virginia.” Encyclopedia Virginia, May 3, 2024. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/public-school-system-in-virginia-establishment-of-the/. This resource can be an aid to teachers by providing information about the establishment of freedmen schools in Virginia.
McCrery, Contributor: Anne, and Contributor: Errol SomayContributor: the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. “John Mitchell Jr. (1863–1929).” Encyclopedia Virginia, February 15, 2023. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/mitchell-john-jr-1863-1929/. This resource can be an aid to teachers by providing information about the success of freedmen schools, and how the products of these institutions would go on to achieve success for their communities.
Miller, Cecil. “Federal Writers’ Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 5, Indiana, Arnold-Woodson Library of Congress.” Library of Congress, 1936.https://www.loc.gov/resource/mesn.050/?sp=7&st=list. This resource can be an aid to teachers by providing information on how slaves were able to obtain literacy, while also discussing the obstacles and barriers present in their efforts of obtaining literacy.
Newby- Alexander, Cassandra. “Sarah Garland Jones.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 2, 126 (2018): 210–54. This resource can be an aid to teachers by providing information about the success of freedmen schools, and how the products of these institutions would go on to achieve success for their communities.
“Research Guides: This Month in Business History: Maggie L. Walker, First Black Woman to Charter a Bank.” Maggie L. Walker, First Black Woman to Charter a Bank - This Month in Business History - Research Guides at Library of Congress. Accessed July 16, 2024. https://guides.loc.gov/this-month-in-business-history/november/maggie-l-walker-first-black-woman-to-charter-a-bank#:~:text=Maggie%20Lena%20Walker%20was%20an,Penny%20Savings%20Bank%20in%20Richmond. This resource can be an aid to teachers by providing information about the success of freedmen schools, and how the products of these institutions would go on to achieve success for their communities.
Williams, Heather Andrea. Self-taught: African American education in Slavery and Freedom. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. This resource can be an aid to teachers by providing information on how slaves were able to obtain literacy, while also discussing the obstacles and barriers present in their efforts of obtaining literacy.
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