The Freedom Schools by Jon N. HalePublication Date: 2016
The book's first chapter, "The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom" by John N. Hale, "provides a history of education throughout the American South and how it was viewed both by Southern landowners, who sought to maintain firm control over a labor force they depended upon, and enslaved communities, who desired to supplant an entrenched system of oppression, exploitation, and disenfranchisement through schooling."