My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss

by Hilary Green and Harriet M. Buss

Between 1863 and 1871, Harriet M. Buss of Sterling, Massachusetts, taught former slaves in three different regions of the South, in coastal South Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina. A white, educated Baptist woman, she initially saw herself as on a mission to the freedpeople of the Confederacy but over time developed a shared mission with her students and devoted herself to training the next generation of Black teachers.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813946638
• ISBN13: 9780813946634
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 9.2"