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From a New England woman's diary in Dixie in 1865

Ames, Mary 1831-1903 (Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: 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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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    Electronic data (1 file : ca. 95 kilobytes).
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  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999.

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General Note:
Text scanned (OCR) by Thomas Pearson. Images scanned by Thomas Pearson. Text encoded by Jill Kuhn.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.
Original Version Note:
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.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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