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Charlotte Forten, Free Black Teacher
A profile of a black schoolteacher whose firsthand impressions of the nineteenth-century antislavery movement provide important social commentary
144 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1971
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March 16, 2026
Based on the then-unpublished "Journal of Charlotte Forten" (in archive of Howard University); this is a 1971 cooperative published YA book on the life-work-accomplishment of an abolitionist Free Black Teacher who interacts with recognizable 19th century globally impactful figures like Frederick Douglass, Charlotte & Angelina Grimke, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, and her own relatives and grandfather of Philadelphia, James Forten [ also subject of a biography by this author ]. Excellent and enduring with black-and-white reproductions of photography and drawing of key aspects of this woman / teacher and her ordeals/victories in life. 5*
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