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After the US Civil War, hundreds of schools were created to meet the needs of formerly enslaved people who were desperate for education. These schools were taught by a wide range of individuals, many were Evangelical Northerners who came south to help teach. Many were former confederates often desperate for work. And many were the freed people themselves who worked to build a reliable educational system for their families, their children, and their communities.
This collection draws from The Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Georgia Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870. The teachers who worked in freedmen's schools in Georgia sent in monthly forms to report on the status of their schools. This archive is a repository of those reports organized by individual teachers, and by the counties in which those teachers worked.
Created by Sophia Nimlo PhD Student of History at Georgetown University