The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 039300046X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Charlotte Forten was a little more than just 'a free" according to Millicent Hughes. Charlotte Forten was a little more than just 'a free negro.' Her father was a wealthy man and she knew the cream of abolitionist society, black and white. After the Union captured a large number of slaves and freed them on January 1, 186Charlotte Forten was a little more than just 'a free Charlotte Forten was a little more than just 'a free negro.' Her father was a wealthy man and she knew the cream of abolitionist society, black and white. After the Union captured a large number of slaves and freed them on January 1, 1863., a work project, staffed by missionaries and abolitionists started in the sea islands off South Carolina. Charlotte, already a teacher, joined them. From teaching 100 children in a room to fighting fleas to romantic rides with officers (Whene. ., a work project, staffed by missionaries and abolitionists started in the sea islands off South Carolina. Charlotte, already a teacher, joined them. From teaching 100 children in a room to fighting fleas to romantic rides with officers (Whene
But one thing distinguished her from other young Philadelphia women: she was black, 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 an iron determination to excel. Grimké, the son of Henry Grimké whose two sisters, Sarah and Angelina, were prominent abolitionists. Impatient to help the self-advancement of other blacks, she went to Massachusetts to become a teacher and became active in literary and abolitionist circles. Her bequest to humanity, Ray Allen Billington writes, “was a journal which could reveal to a later generation her undying belief in human decency and equality.”. Then, during the Civil War, she traveled to South Carolina to participate in a unique social experiment involving newly freed blacks of the Sea Islands. A young black woman's reactions to the white world of the Civil War era.