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Yes I agree with Katelyn. I did not mean to put Sarah Chase and other abolitionists out of context, which of course was an idea of "natural" white superiority. I think it is a common misunderstanding in history that abolitionists were trying to fight for equal rights. Complete equality was still far off in the future. -Allison Luthern | Yes I agree with Katelyn. I did not mean to put Sarah Chase and other abolitionists out of context, which of course was an idea of "natural" white superiority. I think it is a common misunderstanding in history that abolitionists were trying to fight for equal rights. Complete equality was still far off in the future. -Allison Luthern | ||
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| + | I really liked reading the letters that were given- I drew parallels between the experiences of Sarah and Lucy and the experiences of Sarah Jane Foster, who taught at a college for emancipated slaves in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia after the war. Sarah Jane, a Northerner, recounted how ill-treated she was by the people of the town for coming down to teach the freedmen. She was harassed for wanting to teach them- so much so that she was afaid she would not be able to stay in the town and would have to give up her board. I think her story presents another aspect or side of the story that is not commmonly thought of- how much the women who were coming down from the North, primarily, endured and went through in order to teach and educate. -Allison Godart | ||
== Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, 1902 == | == Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, 1902 == | ||
