“THE VERY MESSENGERS OF GOD”: THE TEACHERS OF ALABAMA’S FREEDPEOPLE, 1865-1870

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dc.contributor.advisorRowland, Leslie S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorJordan, Sylvia Alyssaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-14T05:34:02Z
dc.date.available2017-09-14T05:34:02Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.description.abstractUsing Freedmen’s Bureau records, the papers of the American Missionary Association, and other materials, the author identified 585 individuals who taught ex-slaves in Alabama between 1865 and 1870. The thesis describes their sex, race, and geographical origins, their motives for teaching, the high rate of turnover, and a growing number of black teachers. It examines the teachers’ work in the classroom and the many challenges they faced. It argues that the schools survived only because of the ex-slaves’ own commitment to education and the lengths to which the teachers went in order to keep their schools in operation. Finally, the thesis explores the teachers’ interactions with their surrounding communities. While some white Alabamians were supportive, others expressed hostility through social ostracism, physical assault, arson, and even murder. Especially in the face of such white opposition, the teachers relied heavily upon freedpeople to help build, maintain, and protect the schools.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2NP1WJ8M
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/19872
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAfrican American studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducation historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAlabamaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollededucationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfreedmenen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfreedpeopleen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledschoolen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledteachersen_US
dc.title“THE VERY MESSENGERS OF GOD”: THE TEACHERS OF ALABAMA’S FREEDPEOPLE, 1865-1870en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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