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Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873

Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873

Paperback

Series: Brown Thrasher Books

19th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0820323837
ISBN13: 9780820323831
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Jan 5 2004
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Soldiers of Light and Love is an acclaimed study of the reform-minded northerners who taught freed slaves in the war-torn Reconstruction South. Jacqueline Jones's book, first published in 1980, focuses on the nearly three hundred women who served in Georgia in the chaotic decade following the Civil War. Commissioned by the American Missionary Association and other freedmen's aid societies, these middle-class New Englanders saw themselves as the postbellum, evangelical heirs of the abolitionist cause.

Specific in compass, but wide-ranging in significance, Soldiers of Light and Love illuminates the complexity of class, race, and gender issues in early Victorian America.

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19th Century United States History