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The “Contact of Living Souls”: Shepard Gilbert’s Civics Education in Reconstruction South Carolina

Robert G. Mann
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2015) 88 (2): 286–315.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00455
Published: 01 June 2015
Abstract
Just after the Civil War, a Harvard graduate from Massachusetts receives a civics education from former slaves in South Carolina that radically transforms his life and his beliefs. It is a story that challenges commonly held views of Northern adventurers in the Reconstruction South.
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