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100 1 _aPearson, Elizabeth Ware
245 1 0 _aLetters from Port Royal :
_bWritten at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2008
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2008-03-01
508 _aE-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
520 _a"Letters from Port Royal" by Elizabeth Ware Pearson is a collection of letters written during the Civil War, particularly from the years 1862 to 1868. The letters are penned by a group of Northern volunteers who traveled to Port Royal, South Carolina, to assist formerly enslaved people and manage plantations after the Union captured the area. The correspondence provides a vivid account of their personal experiences, challenges, and observations regarding the lives of Freedmen and their efforts to cultivate the land. The opening of the collection sets the stage for this historical period, detailing the arrival of the volunteers and their initial impressions of the Sea Islands, the newly freed African American populations, and the agricultural landscape. The primary figure, Edward S. Philbrick, communicates his excitement and sense of duty to contribute positively to the lives of the freedmen, while navigating the complexities of supervising their labor in an unaccustomed environment. As the letters unfold, they capture the dynamic interactions between the volunteers and the local population, the challenges posed by the remnants of slavery, and the gradual establishment of trust and cooperation in the face of historical upheaval. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aAfrican Americans -- South Carolina
653 _aSouth Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
653 _aBeaufort (S.C.) -- History
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24722
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