Ronald E. Butchart, a professor of social science education at the University of Georgia, has received a $318,775 grant from the Spencer Foundation to study the formal education of freed slaves in the American South between 1861 and 1875.
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"'A Freed People's Education: Learners, Classrooms and Teachers" is a historical study of the teachers who worked among America's former slaves, the schools they created, the pedagogies they employed and the students they taught, Butchart said in a news release.
By the end of Reconstruction, the freed people and their teachers had established thousands of elementary schools, more than 100 secondary schools and colleges, and laid the foundation for a Southern system of universal education.
Butchart, who joined the UGA faculty in 1999, received his doctorate from State University of New York at Binghamton.
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