Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Cope-Evans Family papers
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.
Friends Freedmen's Association photograph album, 1863 - 1892
This disassembled photograph album depicts students in various classes and places in some of the schools supported by the Association.
Friends Freedmen's Association Records
Martha Schofield photograph collection
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.