Deep Like The Rivers (First Printing) Education In The American Slave Community 1831-1865 Webber, Thomas L. African-American History & Black Interest

W.W. Norton & Co. New York. 1978. 339 pages with index. First edition stated, first printing with full numberline including 1. A near-pristine copy. Book is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Cream-color cloth panels stamped in brown. Original DJ is bright and clean with $14.95 price intact on flap. This book addresses three crucial questions regarding the quality and availability of education to slaves in America by examining what white slave-owners expected their slaves to learn, what slaves actually did learn, and the methods by which they learned. The book's primary sources are slave narratives and recollections by former slaves. Per the author, Deep like the Rivers, tries to present the world as it was understood and lived in by American Slaves. A tight and clean first edition first printing. Fine/Fine