Historical Monthly Publication: The Penn School on St. Helena Island
Subject
Penn School
Title
Historical Monthly Publication: The Penn School on St. Helena Island
Date
1902
Type
Historical Monthly Publication
Description
Note: See book p. 263, slide #263. Racial epithets used, and some language may be offensive to readers.
Google Books provides a 1902 article - written by Henry Wilder Foote and published in Hampton Institute's historical monthly publication called The Southern Workman - on Penn School- one of the first schools for formerly enslaved African Americans established on St. Helena Island in South Carolina. Themes include: the founding of the school, the work of Northern missionary teachers- Laura Matilda Towne and Ellen Murray, industrial training, medical care on the island, and the state of the school after Towne's death in 1901. Numerous historical photos of school buildings and the local community are included.
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Google Books provides a 1902 article - written by Henry Wilder Foote and published in Hampton Institute's historical monthly publication called The Southern Workman - on Penn School- one of the first schools for formerly enslaved African Americans established on St. Helena Island in South Carolina. Themes include: the founding of the school, the work of Northern missionary teachers- Laura Matilda Towne and Ellen Murray, industrial training, medical care on the island, and the state of the school after Towne's death in 1901. Numerous historical photos of school buildings and the local community are included.
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Publisher
Google Books (Original Publisher: The Hampton Institute Press, Contributor: Harvard Library)
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“Historical Monthly Publication: The Penn School on St. Helena Island,” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 9, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/708.