Gentle Invaders: Quaker Women Educators and Racial Issues During the Civil War and Reconstruction

Type

Book

Authors

Selleck ( Linda B. Selleck )

ISBN 10

0944350305

ISBN 13

9780944350300

Tags

Quaker Women, Civil War, Reconstruction, Slavery, Quaker, History, Religion & Spirituality, Discrimination & Racism, Schools & Teaching

Abstract

Grounded in the Quaker sense of spiritual equality for all believers, and funded primarily by Friends in the northern yearly meetings, more than two hundred Quaker women headed south to establish and/or teach in the first schools for contraband and former slaves during the Civil War and period of Reconstruction.

Description

Softcover. Good condition.

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