From a New England woman's diary in Dixie in 1865
By: Ames, Mary, 1831-1903
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Diaries; Teachers; Women; African Americans; Education; History; Freed persons; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Social life and customs; United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: This volume, told through excerpts from the diary of Mary Ames, relates the experiences of two Northern white women, Mary Ames and Emily Bliss, who were employed by the Freedman's Bureau to open a school for the benefit of former slaves. It tells of their journey to Edisto Island, South Carolina, where liberated slaves had been settled after Reconstruction, and of the ruinous living conditions suffered by freedmen and teachers alike. The women managed to establish a school with well over one hundred students, both children and adults. The diary tells of Miss Ames's dealings with former slaves, documents their social and religious life, and reports on the daily difficulties of life in the Reconstruction South. The school was closed by the Freedman's Bureau after a little more than a year.
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Transcribed from: From a New England woman's diary in Dixie in 1865 / by Mary Ames. Springfield, [Mass.] : [s.n.], 1906 (Norwood, Mass. : Plimpton Press). vi, 125 p. : ports. ; 20 cm. "This book is made and sold to benefit the Scholarship founded by The Springfield Hampton Club in memory of Elizabeth Mitchell Ames ... For sale at Johnson's Bookstore Main Street"--Before frontispiece leaf. Introduction signed: E.L.C.

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