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This book reconstructs the history of education of black in the south from antebellum to The Great Depression. It is a very changeable and unstable era. So, there are two primary goals of this book: First, this volume seeks to give meaning to educational movement and ideologies as they influenced the basic organization and substance of educational institutions. Second, it seeks to provide a detailed documentation of the actual structure and content of each level of black education. The author hopes reader can “understand how politics, power and ideology shaped the framework and opportunity structure of black educational institutions” The first two chapters are sharp contrasts. The chapter one describes how ex-slaves view education as a mean for personal liberation and struggled to build an education system to help reinforce their conceptions of freedom and free society. Even before Civil War, ex-slaves desired for literacy and pursued it by themselves in order to fight against the oppression. They founded “Sabbath” school system collectively and they adopted New England classical liberal curriculum because it can “provide access to the best intellectual traditions of their era and the best means to understanding the