11819 Thomas Y. Crowell Company New York 1970 First Edition Dust Jacket Very Good Hard Cover Very Good Blue cloth on boards. Volume is lightly worn on edges. Jacket is slightly worn heel of spine, some rubbing makes the rear panel look soiled. Now in clear cover. Charlotte Forten came to Salem in 1854, a free 'person of color.' There she found friends and people that shared her antislavery concerns. She was exposed to the great men of the antislavery movement. From a romantic schoolgirl, indignant and eager to serve, she grew into a dedicated young women. When schools were started for newly freed slaves in South Carolina, Charlotte volunteered to teach at Port Royal. Drawing on the journal that Charlotte kept in those exciting years and on the writings of her contemporaries, Polly Longsworth has created a sensitive portrait of an extraodinary young women and a dramatic time." $20.00USD
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