Modern Comics: Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks

Esther Hill Hawks

Modern Comics: Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks

2013

Modern Comics

Live Free and Draw features a series of comic strips, by Marek bennet, that illustrate different entries in the diary of Esther Hill Hawks - a White missionary teacher, physician, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate from New Hampshire. The comics focus on her time as a missionary teacher working with freed people in the South Carolina Sea Islands.

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