Teachers
in the Feedmen's Schools
in Norfolk, Va., 1863.
(Haverford College Library, Haverford, Pa., Quaker Collection, Friends
Freedman's Association, Collection no. 950)
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Some
of the black and white teachers and missionaries from the North, known
as Gideon's Band, who went to the Sea Islands to work with the freedpeople.
The first
group arrived in March 1862 and included women such as Susan Walker, a
close friend of Salmon Chase (1808-1873), then Secretary of the Treasury.
These women taught the former slaves to read and sew and were responsible
for distributing and selling the clothing sent to them by northern freedmen's
aid associations.
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more about how white women aided former slaves