Biography: Dr. Esther Hill Hawks

Esther Hill Hawks

Biography: Dr. Esther Hill Hawks

2004

Biography

HathiTrust features a medium length biography on Esther Hill Hawks, a White abolitionist teacher, physician, and women's rights advocate from New Hampshire, written by Leslie J. Favor in the 2004 book, Women Doctors and Nurses of the Civil War (pages 31-39). Several historical images are also included within the biography, which provides details about Hawks' work in hospitals, freedmen’s schools, and charity organizations in the Sea Islands of South Carolina, Port Orange, Florida, and Lynn, Massachusetts.

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