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- GLC#
- GLC06232.15
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- May 1863
- Author/Creator
- Educational Commission for Freedmen (Boston, Mass.)
- Title
- First annual report of the educational commission for freedmen.
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 22 p. : Height: 23 cm, Width: 14.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Printed by Prentiss & Deland. Discusses the Port Royal Experiment, in which former slaves successfully worked on land abandoned by plantation owners on islands off the coast of South Carolina. Includes a report of the committee of teachers sent to Port Royal: "The instruction most needed by the blacks was not in the knowledge of school books, but in that which should lead them to appreciate the advantages of civilized life, to relinquish many of the habits and customs of slavery, and to learn the duties and responsibilities of free men." John Albion Andrew was chosen as President of the commission.
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