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The Freedmen’s Teacher Project: Teachers among the Freed People in the U.S. South, 1861-1877

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Title The Freedmen’s Teacher Project: Teachers among the Freed People in the U.S. South, 1861-1877
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0HBDZD
 
Creator Butchart, Ronald E.
Pavich, Melanie
Engel, Mary Ella
Davis, Christina
Rolleri, Amy F.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The Freedmen’s Teacher Project (FTP) was initiated more than four decades ago. Its focus was on the people who responded to the overwhelming demand of formerly enslaved southern African Americans for access to literacy. Its temporal scope is from the first weeks of the American Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. The intent was to amass as much information on as many of the teachers as possible in order to, first, answer a number of historical questions about the teachers and, second, to measure the black response to educational opportunity. The project employs prosopography, or collective biography, to reveal commonalities and exceptions among the teachers. Originally imagined as a study of perhaps five thousand teachers, it grew to embrace every identifiable teacher in black schools during the focus time period, numbering now just shy of twelve thousand individuals. The conclusions that have been drawn have surprised, and usually delighted, activists and scholars working in black education, the social history of teachers and teaching, women’s history, social history, and teacher education.
 
Subject Arts and Humanities
Slavery
 
Language English
 
Date 2022-06-30
 
Contributor Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation
 
Type Census or Register
Letter
Life History or Narrative
Membership List
Military Service Record
Secondary Source
 
Source Alabama:
Mobile: Mobile Public Library, Local History and Genealogy Library
Montgomery: Alabama State Archives

Connecticut:
New Haven: Yale University, Special Collections

Delaware:
Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware

District of Columbia:
Washington: Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division
National Archives
Civil War Military Records
Civil War Pension Records
Southern Claims Commission Records
Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

Florida:
St. Augustine: St. Augustine Research Library
Tallahassee, Florida State Archives

Georgia:
Atlanta: Atlanta University, Trevor Arnett Library
Georgia State Archives
Savannah: Chatham County Public Schools, Board of Education Office

Illinois:
Chicago: Chicago Historical Society

Indiana:
Richmond: Earlham College, Quaker Collection

Iowa:
Oskaloosa: Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends, Records Room

Louisiana:
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Archives
New Orleans: Amistad Research Center, Tulane University
New Orleans University, Special Collections

Maryland:
Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society

Massachusetts:
Boston: Boston Public Library
Massachusetts Historical Society
Cambridge: Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute, Schlesinger Library
Harvard Business School, Baker Library
Framingham: Framingham State College, College Archives
South Hadley: Mount Holyoke College, College Archives
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society

Missouri:
Jefferson: Missouri State Archives

New York:
Ithaca: Cornell University, Special Collections, Anti-Slavery Collection
Rochester: University of Rochester, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

North Carolina:
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, Wilson Library, Special Collections
Durham: Duke University, Perkins Library
Greensboro: Guilford College, Hege Library, Friends Historical Collection
Greensboro Historical Museum
Raleigh: North Carolina State Archives

Ohio:
Delaware: Ohio Wesleyan University Historical Collection
Oberlin: Oberlin College, College Archives

Pennsylvania:
Philadelphia: Haverford College, Quaker Miscellany
Swarthmore College, Friends Historical Library
Philadelphia Society of Friends, Department of Records
University of Pennsylvania, University Archives

Rhode Island:
Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society

South Carolina:
Charleston: College of Charleston, Avery Research Center
Columbia: South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina
South Carolina State Archives
Port Royal: Penn Center
Spartanburg: Wofford College, College Archives

Texas:
Austin: Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Vermont:
Barre: Vermont Historical Society

Virginia:
Charlottesville: University of Virginia, Alderman Library, Special Collections
Gloucester Point: Private Collection, Linda Harriot Voorhis Breaks
Hampton: Hampton University, University Archives
Richmond: Library of Virginia
Virginia Historical Society

Wisconsin:
Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society