A Literate South: Reading before Emancipation
ISBN: 9780300245394
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature ; History;

A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South's oral tradition

Beth Barton Schweiger taught for fifteen years at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of The Gospel Working Up and editor of Religion in the American South .

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