Historical Newspaper: Recent Publications [Elizabeth Botume]
Subject
Elizabeth Botume
Title
Historical Newspaper: Recent Publications [Elizabeth Botume]
Date
10/27/1893
Type
Historical Newspaper
Description
Note: See 8th paragraph, 5th to last paragraph.
Chronicling America provides a October 27, 1893 article, writer unknown, from the Morning Journal and Courier newspaper that summarizes and promotes, "First Days Amongst the Contrabands," a memoir by Elizabeth Hyde Botume- a White missionary teacher who was sent to teach newly freed people in the South Carolina Sea Islands during the Port Royal Experiment. The review claims that the book is "a most faithful and interesting delineation of the negro character and contraband life," and includes "the manner in which the benevolent intentions of the government toward the freedmen were carried out."
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Chronicling America provides a October 27, 1893 article, writer unknown, from the Morning Journal and Courier newspaper that summarizes and promotes, "First Days Amongst the Contrabands," a memoir by Elizabeth Hyde Botume- a White missionary teacher who was sent to teach newly freed people in the South Carolina Sea Islands during the Port Royal Experiment. The review claims that the book is "a most faithful and interesting delineation of the negro character and contraband life," and includes "the manner in which the benevolent intentions of the government toward the freedmen were carried out."
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Publisher
Library of Congress - Chronicling America (Morning Journal and Courier, CT)
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“Historical Newspaper: Recent Publications [Elizabeth Botume],” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 10, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/795.