Abstract:In the southern states of the United States, black education-the education for black people-started during the Civil War and boomed in the Reconstruction. Before the war, the mass of blacks in the South could have no schooling at all. For about three decades before the war, as a white response to Nat Turner's slave rebellion of 1831 in Virginia[!]' all southern states forbade by law education for slaves and even free blacks. Prior to 1864, whatever education blacks received was mostly by hiding out and learnin… Show more
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