Article: The Port Royal Experiment

Gideonites

Article: The Port Royal Experiment

2016

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Essential Civil War Curriculum features an article written by Ben Parten (2016) that provides an overview of the Port Royal Experiment in the South Carolina Sea Islands. Themes include: the significance of the Day of the Gun Shoot at Bay Point, the recruitment and conflicts experienced by the Gideonites (a group of Northern abolitionist missionaries and teachers), the challenges that freedmen and women faced, and their efforts to negotiate with Northern missionaries. Other themes include: the impact of General William Tecumseh Sherman's Special Field Order 15, land redistribution for freedmen, and the impact of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on the Experiment.

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Essential Civil War Curriculum (Contributor: Virginia Tech)

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