Historical Digitized Book: Letters from Port Royal, written at the Time of the Civil War [1862-1868]
Subject
Harriet Ware
Title
Historical Digitized Book: Letters from Port Royal, written at the Time of the Civil War [1862-1868]
Date
1906
Type
Historical Book
Description
Note: Harriet Ware's letters are listed under "H.W." Racial epithets used. Some language may be offensive to some readers.
Project Gutenberg features a digitized book, edited by Elizabeth Ware Pearson - a White abolitionist teacher and writer - during the Port Royal Experiment in the South Carolina Sea Islands (Beaufort). The publication includes a collection of letters written by Pearson and other White Northern abolitionists during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Several letters from Harriet Ware - a White missionary teacher from Massachusetts - appear throughout the collection under the initials "H.W." Themes include: Ware's observations on Gullah Geechee culture and their living conditions, observations on Union soldiers' behavior, physical descriptions of the environment and plantations, and many descriptions of local meals.
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Project Gutenberg features a digitized book, edited by Elizabeth Ware Pearson - a White abolitionist teacher and writer - during the Port Royal Experiment in the South Carolina Sea Islands (Beaufort). The publication includes a collection of letters written by Pearson and other White Northern abolitionists during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Several letters from Harriet Ware - a White missionary teacher from Massachusetts - appear throughout the collection under the initials "H.W." Themes include: Ware's observations on Gullah Geechee culture and their living conditions, observations on Union soldiers' behavior, physical descriptions of the environment and plantations, and many descriptions of local meals.
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Project Gutenberg
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“Historical Digitized Book: Letters from Port Royal, written at the Time of the Civil War [1862-1868],” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 6, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/826.