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A History of Southland College: The Society of Friends and Black Education in Arkansas
Thomas Kennedy
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Hardcover. Focuses on dedicated Quaker missionaries in post-Civil War Arkansas. Num Pages: 424 pages, 25 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBT; JFSL3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 703.
This work focuses on dedicated Quaker missionaries in post-Civil War Arkansas. In 1864 Alida and Calvin Clark, two abolitionist members of the Religious Society of Friends from Indiana, went on a mission trip to Helena, Arkansas. The Clarks had come to render temporary relief to displaced war orphans but instead found a lifelong calling. During their time in Arkansas, they started the school that became Southland College, which was the first institution of higher education for blacks west of the Mississippi, and they set up the first predominately black monthly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in North America. ... Read more
This work focuses on dedicated Quaker missionaries in post-Civil War Arkansas. In 1864 Alida and Calvin Clark, two abolitionist members of the Religious Society of Friends from Indiana, went on a mission trip to Helena, Arkansas. The Clarks had come to render temporary relief to displaced war orphans but instead found a lifelong calling. During their time in Arkansas, they started the school that became Southland College, which was the first institution of higher education for blacks west of the Mississippi, and they set up the first predominately black monthly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in North America. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557289162
SKU
V9781557289162
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Ref
99-15
About Thomas Kennedy
Thomas C. Kennedy is the author of The Hound of Conscience: A History of the No-Conscription Fellowship, 1914-1919 and British Quakerism, 1860-1920: The Transformation of a Religious Community. He has also written numerous articles on Quakers in Arkansas.
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