The Forgotten : The Contraband of America and the Road to Freedom

There is a compelling article in the latest issue of Preservation magazine: "The Forgotten: the Contraband of America and the Road to Freedom" by Eric Wills.

This article was recommended to us by Faith Johnson, former ACA Board member, as relevant to our library collections on slavery and the American Missionary Association.

Mary S. Peake was the first black teacher hired by the American Missionary Association, she was associated with its later founding of Hampton Universityin 1868. Louis C. Lockwood, a member of the American Missionary Association, was the first missionary to the freedmen at Fort Monroe and greatly admired Ms. Peake. He was the sponsor of her school and wrote her biography.

 

-Claudette