PREFACE
“School Clothes” and the Black Vernacular

INTRODUCTION
Living and Learning Behind the Veil

CHAPTER 1
Going to School North of Slavery

CHAPTER 2
Becoming Fugitive Learners

CHAPTER 3
Learning and Striving in the Afterlife of Slavery

CHAPTER 4
Reading in the Dark: Becoming Black Literate Subjects

CHAPTER 5
A Singing School for Justice

CHAPTER 6
Some of Them Became Schoolteachers

CONCLUSION
Hieroglyphics of the Black Student Body

Acknowledgments
Notes
Image Credits
Index

Table of Contents

PREFACE
“School Clothes” and the Black Vernacular

INTRODUCTION
Living and Learning Behind the Veil

CHAPTER 1
Going to School North of Slavery

CHAPTER 2
Becoming Fugitive Learners

CHAPTER 3
Learning and Striving in the Afterlife of Slavery

CHAPTER 4
Reading in the Dark: Becoming Black Literate Subjects

CHAPTER 5
A Singing School for Justice

CHAPTER 6
Some of Them Became Schoolteachers

CONCLUSION
Hieroglyphics of the Black Student Body

Acknowledgments
Notes
Image Credits
Index

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