Emerson Bentley journal, 1860-1880
Publisher: Louisiana State University, Archives & Special Collections
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Shreveport, La
Language: eng
Format: [microform]
Subjects: Diaries
Notes: Title from container label.

Diary of a "carpetbagger" school teacher, newspaperman and politician who moved to Louisiana as a teenager from Ohio after the Civil War. Emerson Bentley was a teacher of freed black children with the Freedman's Bureau in Bayou Carollton, Lafourche, Louisiana. He later became a Republican newspaper editor supporting the rights of blacks in Carollton and New Orleans, Louisiana. His diary as a teacher with the Freedman's Bureau includes notes, newspaper clippings on his work with the Bureau, and his editorials encouraging land reform for blacks under Radical Reconstruction.

Printed guide to the collection titled: A guide to the Archives & Special Collections in the Noel Memorial Library at Louisiana State University, Shreveport.