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Grounded in the Quaker sense of spiritual equality for all believers, and funded primarily by Friends in the northern yearly meetings, more than two hundred Quaker women headed south to establish and/or teach in the first schools for contraband and former slaves during the Civil War and period of Reconstruction.
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Linda B. Selleck is a native of Southampton County, Virginia. A recorded Friends minister, she bas been active in pastoral and music ministry since 1980, and has also taught school music at all levels. She and husband Ron have two daughters, Sarah and Rachel.
Grounded in the Quaker sense of spiritual equality for all believers, and funded primarily by Friends in the northern yearly meetings, more than two hundred Quaker women headed south to establish and/or teach in the first schools for contraband and former slaves during the Civil War and period of Reconstruction.
About the Author
Linda B. Selleck is a native of Southampton County, Virginia. A recorded Friends minister, she bas been active in pastoral and music ministry since 1980, and has also taught school music at all levels. She and husband Ron have two daughters, Sarah and Rachel.
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One early fall morning in 1960 my dusty yellow school bus rolled through the peanut fields of Southampton County, in the southeastern tidewater area of Virginia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yearly meeting minutes, gentle invaders, black education, northern teachers, open worship, yearly meetings, northern workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, African Americans, Alida Clark, Society of Friends, Indiana Yearly Meeting, Freedmen's Bureau, South Carolina, New York, Laura Towne, Sea Islands, Baltimore Association, Southland Friends, Harriet Brent Jacobs, Indiana Quakers, Duncan Freeland, Penn School, Prudence Crandall, Sarah Smiley, Philadelphia Quakers, Southampton County, Southland College, William Penn, Baltimore Friends, Daniel Drew, Martha Schofield New!
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One early fall morning in 1960 my dusty yellow school bus rolled through the peanut fields of Southampton County, in the southeastern tidewater area of Virginia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yearly meeting minutes, gentle invaders, black education, northern teachers, open worship, yearly meetings, northern workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, African Americans, Alida Clark, Society of Friends, Indiana Yearly Meeting, Freedmen's Bureau, South Carolina, New York, Laura Towne, Sea Islands, Baltimore Association, Southland Friends, Harriet Brent Jacobs, Indiana Quakers, Duncan Freeland, Penn School, Prudence Crandall, Sarah Smiley, Philadelphia Quakers, Southampton County, Southland College, William Penn, Baltimore Friends, Daniel Drew, Martha Schofield New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America by Margaret Hope Bacon on 6 pages
- Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews With Virginia Ex-Slaves by Charles L. Perdue on 4 pages
- Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Brown Thrasher Books) by Willie Lee Nichols Rose on 4 pages
- The Later Periods of Quakerism by Rufus Matthew Jones on 4 pages
- From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans by John Hope Franklin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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