“To be true to ourselves”: Freedpeople, School Building, and Community Politics in Appalachian Tennessee, 1865-1870
This thesis explores the ways communities of ex-slaves and free blacks in Appalachian Tennessee mobilized to build schools in the five years after the Civil War. Historians have long asserted that black schools were central institutions in the movement by Southern blacks to create an autonomous cult...
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Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange
2009
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| Online Access: | http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/42 |