The journal of Charlotte L. Forten : a free Negro in the slave era / edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ray Allen Billington.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, England : Collier-Macmillan Limited, 1953.Description: 286 pages : black and white map ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 039300046X
  • 97800393000467
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LA 2317 F67 1953
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Contents:
1. Salem schooldays: May 24, 1854 - December 31, 1854 -- 2. Student and abolitionist: January 1, 1855 - May 29, 1856 -- 3. Teacher and invalid: June 18, 1856 - June 11, 1857 -- 4. Philadelphia and Salem: June 12, 1857 - January 1, 1860 -- 5. From Salem to St. Helena Island: June 22, 1862 - November 29, 1862 -- 6. Life among freedmen: November 30, 1862 - February 14, 1863 -- 7. End of a Mission: February 15, 1863 - May 15, 1864.
Summary: "Charlotte L. Forten was sensitive, intelligent, attractive, and educated in the culture and conventions of pre-Civil War America. But one thing distinguished her from other Philadelphia belles: she was a Negro, destined to endure the constant insults that were accorded any person of color in her day. Her remarkable diary reveals how her resentment against the prejudice of the white world became transformed into iron determination to excel. Impatient to help the self-advancement of other Negroes, she went to Massachusetts to become a teacher and met many leading Abolitionists. Then, during the Civil War, she traveled to South Carolina to participate in a unique social experiment involving newly freed Negroes of the Sea Islands. Her ceaseless zeal and her unforgettable pictures of the events and people of her day make her journal one of the classic documents in the history of survival against prejudice." --From the book jacket. Content advice: This text contains racial terms from both the 19th century and the 1950s that is offensive today.
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This text contains a black and white map of the sea islands of South Carolina, contemporary to the nineteenth century.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-277) and index.

1. Salem schooldays: May 24, 1854 - December 31, 1854 -- 2. Student and abolitionist: January 1, 1855 - May 29, 1856 -- 3. Teacher and invalid: June 18, 1856 - June 11, 1857 -- 4. Philadelphia and Salem: June 12, 1857 - January 1, 1860 -- 5. From Salem to St. Helena Island: June 22, 1862 - November 29, 1862 -- 6. Life among freedmen: November 30, 1862 - February 14, 1863 -- 7. End of a Mission: February 15, 1863 - May 15, 1864.

"Charlotte L. Forten was sensitive, intelligent, attractive, and educated in the culture and conventions of pre-Civil War America. But one thing distinguished her from other Philadelphia belles: she was a Negro, destined to endure the constant insults that were accorded any person of color in her day. Her remarkable diary reveals how her resentment against the prejudice of the white world became transformed into iron determination to excel. Impatient to help the self-advancement of other Negroes, she went to Massachusetts to become a teacher and met many leading Abolitionists. Then, during the Civil War, she traveled to South Carolina to participate in a unique social experiment involving newly freed Negroes of the Sea Islands. Her ceaseless zeal and her unforgettable pictures of the events and people of her day make her journal one of the classic documents in the history of survival against prejudice." --From the book jacket.

This text contains racial terms from both the 19th century and the 1950s that is offensive today.

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