Title: Two volumes by White missionary teachers of “Freedmen” in Mississippi, Florida and Georgia Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: 1893-1915 Description: Includes: Waterbury, M. Seven Years Among the Freedmen.Original cloth binding. Illustrated. 198 pp. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. T.B. Arnold, 1893. With a 1909 presentation inscription from the publisher. (Rubberstamp name of another on front free endpaper, and light soiling to cloth). Emerson, Harriet E. Annals of a Harvester, Reviewing Forty Years of Home Missionary Work in Southern States 96pp. Original cloth binding. Illustrated. Arthur W. Emerson, [1915]. Maria Waterbury was a missionary teacher from Illinois who went South after the Civil War to help educate “freed” Blacks in rural Mississippi at a time when missionary schools were targets of Ku Klux Klan terror. Emerson gives an account of her father, a Methodist minister from New Hampshire who, after serving as Chaplain of a Union regiment in Florida during the Civil War, returned there to establish schools for Freedmen. The author herself worked in Georgia among Black women for the Methodist Home Missionary Society. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good or near fine. Item number: 241855
Title: Two volumes by White missionary teachers of “Freedmen” in Mississippi, Florida and Georgia Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: 1893-1915 Description: Includes: Waterbury, M. Seven Years Among the Freedmen.Original cloth binding. Illustrated. 198 pp. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. T.B. Arnold, 1893. With a 1909 presentation inscription from the publisher. (Rubberstamp name of another on front free endpaper, and light soiling to cloth). Emerson, Harriet E. Annals of a Harvester, Reviewing Forty Years of Home Missionary Work in Southern States 96pp. Original cloth binding. Illustrated. Arthur W. Emerson, [1915]. Maria Waterbury was a missionary teacher from Illinois who went South after the Civil War to help educate “freed” Blacks in rural Mississippi at a time when missionary schools were targets of Ku Klux Klan terror. Emerson gives an account of her father, a Methodist minister from New Hampshire who, after serving as Chaplain of a Union regiment in Florida during the Civil War, returned there to establish schools for Freedmen. The author herself worked in Georgia among Black women for the Methodist Home Missionary Society. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good or near fine. Item number: 241855
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