Anna Gardner [manuscript]: teacher of freedmen, "a disturber of tradition", by Barbara White 2005 May.

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Anna Gardner [manuscript]: teacher of freedmen, "a disturber of tradition", by Barbara White 2005 May.

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The essay traces Gardner's upbringing in a Nantucket Quaker abolitionist family, teacher of freedmen in New Bern, North Carolina [1864?-1865], Charlottesville, Va. [1865-1870], and Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Camden, South Carolina and New Bern, North Carolina [ca. 1870-ca. 1877] under the auspices of both the New England Freedmen's Society and the Freedmen's Bureau, and her retirement years as a leader in the feminist movement. It contains a detailed description of the workings of the freedmen's school in Charlottesville, including descriptions of her fellow teachers Philena Carkin, Paul Lewis and Isabella Gibbons and conflicting religious views with both the white trustees of the school and her African American scholars which led to her resignation.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Lewis, Paul, fl. 1865-1870.

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Gardner, Anna, 1816-1901

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New England Freedmen's Aid Society

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The New England Freedmen's Aid Society was founded in Boston in 1862 as the Educational Commission. In 1865 it became a part of the American Freedmen's Aid Commission. From the description of Daily journal : manuscript, 1869-1871. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612866273 ...

Carkin, Philena.

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Massachusetts schoolteacher of freedmen in Charlottesville, Va., 1866-1875, under the auspices of the American Freedmen's Aid Commission. From the description of Philena Carkin papers [manuscript], 1866-1902. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647842037 From the description of Reminiscences of Philena Carkin [manuscript], 1910. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647924771 ...

Gibbons, Isabella, 1833-1889.

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White, Barbara-Sue, 1942-....

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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...