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Laura M. Towne

(Towne, Laura M. (Laura Matilda), 1825-1901)

Laura Matilda Towne (May 3, 1825 – February 22, 1901) was an American abolitionist and educator who founded the first school in the United States for the education of freedmen, the Penn School, in 1862 on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. The school was established as part of the Port Royal Experiment during the American Civil War. (From Wikipedia)

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Holland, Rupert Sargent, 1878-1952

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Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne, Written From the Sea Islands of South Carolina, 1862-1884 (Cambridge, MA: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1912), by Laura M. Towne, ed. by Rupert Sargent Holland (page images at HathiTrust)

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Towne, Laura M. (Laura Matilda), 1825-1901: Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne, Written From the Sea Islands of South Carolina, 1862-1884 (Cambridge, MA: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1912), ed. by Rupert Sargent Holland (page images at HathiTrust)

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