Beth Barton Schweiger / A Literate South Reading Before Emancipation 2019

Description: A Literate South: Reading Before Emancipation Author: Beth Barton Schweiger Title: A Literate South: Reading Before Emancipation Publication: Yale University Press, 2019 Description: Hardcover. New tightly bound hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.13 x 1 x 9.25 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes a list of abbreviations, notes and an index. 288 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New / New. A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South's oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible--which has its origins in the eighteenth century--has obscured the rich literate tradition at the heart of Southern and American culture. . Seller ID: 100155 Subject: African American Studies, Education , Linguistics The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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