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Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Cope-Evans Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1170
Abstract

Letters (with accompanying poetry, acrostics, drawings, clippings, etc.), marriage certificates, photographs, friendship book, estate related papers, account books, and computer disks. Primarily letters of the closely related Quaker families of Cope and Evans of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); other families include Brown, Drinker, and Haines.

Dates: 1732-1911
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Friends Freedmen's Association photograph album, 1863 - 1892

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-141
Scope and Contents

This disassembled photograph album depicts students in various classes and places in some of the schools supported by the Association.

Dates: 1863 - 1892
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Friends Historical Library collection of photograph albums

Friends Freedmen's Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-024
Abstract Friends' Freedmen's Association was an organization of Philadelphia Quakers founded in 1863 as Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freemen. Its purpose was to provide relief and education to formerly enslaved people during and after the Civil War. The name was changed circa 1873. From 1947-1955 the Association supported black students in schools and summer work camps. From 1955-1970 the income from investments was used to provide grants for...
Dates: 1863-1982
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Martha Schofield photograph collection

 Collection — Othertype PA-143
Identifier: SFHL-PA-143
Abstract

Martha Schofield (1839-1916) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pennsylvania who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S. C., in 1868 to provide education for formerly enslaved people. This collection contains a number of portraits of Martha Schofield, as well as some family pictures and photographs of the Schofield school.

Dates: 1847 - 1984
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections