A free-born Pennsylvania abolitionist, writer, storyteller, poet and teacher. Recruited to teach newly freed people in the Port Royal Experiment in the South Carolina Sea Islands during the Civil War.
Note: See pages 59-66.The digitized book excerpt was taken from Stanley Turkel's Heroes of the American Reconstruction: Profiles of Sixteen Educators,…
The South Carolina Department of Archives and History provides the 1979 historical property record for the Edgar Fripp Plantation on St. Helena Island…
