Penn Center : A History Preserved.
Title:
Penn Center : A History Preserved.
Author:
Burton, Orville Vernon.
ISBN:
9780820347844
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (184 pages)
Series:
A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Penn School Begins amidst War -- Chapter Two. Penn School from Reconstruction to 1901 -- Chapter Three. Penn Normal, Industrial, and Agricultural School -- Chapter Four. Penn Center and the Civil Rights Movement -- Chapter Five. Penn as a Center of Preservation and Sustainability -- Chapter Six. Penn as a Center of Gullah Preservation -- Appendix. Beaufort County and St. Helena Subdivision Population Data -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The Gullah people of St. Helena Island still relate that their people wanted to "catch the learning" after northern abolitionists founded Penn School in 1862, less than six months after the Union army captured the South Carolina sea islands. In this broad history Orville Vernon Burton and Wilbur Cross range across the past 150 years to reacquaint us with the far-reaching impact of a place where many daring and innovative social justice endeavors had their beginnings.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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