EPISODE · Oct 15, 2024
Episode 67 – Book Learning and Slave Education with Christopher Span
from Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast · host Heights Libraries
Christopher Span, Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discusses his work, “Sam’s Cottonfield Blues” and “Quest for Book Learning: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.” He discusses why literacy was so feared by white enslavers and crucial to slaves. Detailing how slaves subverted the rules to learn to […]
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Episode 67 – Book Learning and Slave Education with Christopher Span
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