Biography: Laura Matilda Towne

Laura Towne

Biography: Laura Matilda Towne

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The First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia offers a short biography on the life of Laura Matilda Towne, a White abolitionist, missionary, educator, and physician from the North. Themes include: Towne’s calling to join the Port Royal Experiment in South Carolina, her friendship with Ellen Murray, how the pair ministered newly freed African Americans at Penn School, and her memorialization. Also noted is the role Penn School played in the lives of influential African Americans such as Robert Smalls and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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