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Teaching Ourselves - Portrait of Lincoln | Reconstruction 360 Teaching Ourselves

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The flowers used in this vignette were purchased for the scene and aren’t necessarily native to Alabama. Native wildflowers are sometimes considered weeds, but they play an important role in natural...
Teaching Ourselves - Portrait of Lincoln | Reconstruction 360 Teaching Ourselves

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A fugitive slave and an abolitionist, Frederick Douglass sailed to Britain in 1845 and stayed for 19 months. He was a powerful orator, and his antislavery speeches attracted huge crowds...
Teaching Ourselves - Portrait of Lincoln | Reconstruction 360 Teaching Ourselves

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These little chalkboards would be used by the students in this class to practice reading, writing and arithmetic. They are a type of tablet, a solid, flat surface that can be written on...
Teaching Ourselves

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The Freedmen’s Bureau supported African American education. Although the bureau didn’t operate schools or hire teachers, its agents helped build schools and supply them with books, and they sometimes...
Teaching Ourselves - Portrait of Lincoln | Reconstruction 360 Teaching Ourselves

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The American Missionary Society and other private benevolent societies from the North helped to establish more than five hundred schools and colleges for formerly enslaved people in the South...
Teaching Ourselves - Flowers | Reconstruction 360 Teaching Ourselves

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Freedpeople often had difficulty finding appropriate school buildings, and Black students regularly attended school in churches. Ministers were often happy to host schools in their churches, and...
Teaching Ourselves - Flowers | Reconstruction 360 Teaching Ourselves

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The school's new teacher has recently finished her training and this is her first teaching assignment. Black men and women were eager to teach in schools for freedpeople, and African American...
Teaching Ourselves - Flowers | Reconstruction 360 Teaching Ourselves

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This community member, the leader of a local mutual aid society , has been instrumental in raising funds to hire a new teacher. Black communities often pooled their money to build schools and pay...
Teaching Ourselves - Portrait of Lincoln | Reconstruction 360 Teaching Ourselves

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A popular book for teaching spelling and reading was Noah Webster’s Elementary Spelling Book, known as “the blue-back speller” because of its binding. Many enslaved people, including Frederick...
Teaching Ourselves - Portrait of Lincoln | Reconstruction 360 Teaching Ourselves

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Although this school has only a few students, many schools for freedpeople were overcrowded. Like most newly emancipated people, these children believe that education is the key to maintaining freedom...