"When I Can Read My Title Clear": Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South'A distinctive volume revealing America's often-contradictory dance with freedom & the concepts of equality & inalienable rights.'-Chicago Tribune. |
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"When I Can Read My Title Clear": Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the ... Janet Duitsman Cornelius No preview available - 1992 |
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Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume 1 Eric Alan Hanushek,Finis Welch No preview available - 2006 |