Read Part One HERE
In this post I will focus on a woman named Emily Howland. She lived from 1827 - 1929. Emily was born at Sherwood in Cayuga County, New York. Her parents were Slocum and Hannah Tallcott Howland, who were prominent in the Society of Friends. She was educated in small private schools in the community, and the Margaret Robinson School, a Friends' school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Emily was an active abolitionist, who taught at the Normal School for Coloured Girls (now the University of the District of Columbia) in Washington, D.C. from 1857 - 1859.
During the Civil War she worked at the contraband refugee settlement of Camp Todd in Arlington, Virginia, teaching freed slaves to read and write as well as administering to the sick during the small pox outbreak and ultimately serving as director of the camp during 1864 - 1866.
Beginning in 1867, Emily started a community for freed people in Heathsville, Northumberland County, Virginia, called Arcadia, on 400 acres purchased by her father, including a school for the education of children of freed slaves, the Howland Chapel School. She continue to maintain an active interest in African-Amercian education, donation money and materials as well as visiting and corresponding with administrators at many schools.
P.S. I will continue my story of Emily Howland in my next post.
Read Part One Hundred And Fifty-One HERE
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