Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873
by Jacqueline Jones
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"Soldiers of Light and Love" is an acclaimed study of the reform-minded northerners who taught freed slaves in the war-torn Reconstruction South. Jacqueline Jones's book, first published in 1980, focuses on the nearly three hundred women who served in Georgia in the chaotic decade following the Civil War. Commissioned by the American Missionary Association and other freedmen's aid societies, these middle-class New Englanders saw themselves as the postbellum, evangelical heirs of the show more abolitionist cause. Specific in compass, but wide-ranging in significance, "Soldiers of Light and Love" illuminates the complexity of class, race, and gender issues in early Victorian America. show lessTags
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Jacqueline Jones is the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and the Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of Saving Savannah, American Work, and The Dispossessed, she lives in Austin, Texas.
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- History, Nonfiction
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- 975.8 — History & geography History of North America Southeastern United States (South Atlantic states) Georgia
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- LC2802 .G4 .J66 — Education Special aspects of education Special aspects of education Education of special classes of persons Blacks. African Americans
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