Historical Newspaper: Sand-Bank Jottings - No. III
Subject
Mitchelville
Title
Historical Newspaper: Sand-Bank Jottings - No. III
Date
12/09/1865
Type
Historical Newspaper
Description
Note: See 4th column, 4th to last paragraph.
Chronicling America features a letter to the editor, writer unknown, in the December 9, 1865 edition of the South Carolina Leader newspaper, about the lives of freedmen on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. Mitchelville - one of the first self-governing Black communities, located on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina - is specifically highlighted. Themes include: local African American education and their teachers, the variety of industrial positions among the local population, and the writer's observations and opinions about Mitchelville.
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Chronicling America features a letter to the editor, writer unknown, in the December 9, 1865 edition of the South Carolina Leader newspaper, about the lives of freedmen on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. Mitchelville - one of the first self-governing Black communities, located on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina - is specifically highlighted. Themes include: local African American education and their teachers, the variety of industrial positions among the local population, and the writer's observations and opinions about Mitchelville.
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Publisher
The Library of Congress - Chronicling America (South Carolina Leader, SC)
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“Historical Newspaper: Sand-Bank Jottings - No. III,” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 8, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/739.