Historical Broadside: Education Among the Freedmen

Laura Towne

Historical Broadside: Education Among the Freedmen

c. 1860s

Historical Broadside

The Library of Congress features a broadside from the 1860s, the precise year unknown, published by the American Freedman's Union Commission, Pennsylvania Branch. The broadside makes an appeal to supporters to help raise funds for missionary teachers' salaries in various Southern states. Laura M. Towne, Ellen Murray, and Harriet W. Ruggles - Northern, White, missionary teachers - were mentioned in the article. The article includes a sketch of White teachers with Black students, inside and in front of the school.

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