My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss
(Part of the A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era Series)
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Between 1863 and 1871, Harriet M. Buss of Sterling, Massachusetts, taught former slaves in three different regions of the South, in coastal South Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina. A white, educated Baptist woman, she initially saw herself as on a mission to the freedpeople of the Confederacy but over time developed a shared mission with her students and devoted herself to training the next generation of Black teachers. The...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813946638
ISBN13:9780813946634
Release Date:December 2021
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:244 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 8.0" x 9.2"
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