Freedmen's Aid Society
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freedmen-s-aid-society-244-4555824
title:
Freedmen's Aid Society
text:
The Freedmen's Aid Society was founded in 1859 during the American Civil War by the American Missionary Association (AMA), a group supported chiefly by the Congregational, Presbyterian and Methodist churches in the North. It organized a supply of teachers from the North and provided housing for them, to set up and teach in schools in the South for freedmen and their children. The AMA founded a total of more than 500 schools and colleges for freedmen in the South after the war, so that freedmen c
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Educational group for the Southern US
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedmen%27s_Aid_Society
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date modified:
2024-04-25T19:05:06Z
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