Edmonia Highgate to Rev. George Whipple, Apr. 13, 1865
- Title
- Edmonia Highgate to Rev. George Whipple, Apr. 13, 1865
- Date
- 04-13-1865
- Creator
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Edmonia Highgate
- Description
- Teacher Edmonia Highgate writes from Darlington, Md. to Rev. George Whipple of the A.M.A. that having started the school there she intends now to resign. She does not consider it her duty to stay at Darlington and teach 30 students when she could be reaching hundreds elsewhere. She intends to go to Richmond to be in the "front ranks." She adds that her brother, a Union soldier wounded at Petersburg, is in poor condition in a hospital at City Point, Va.
- Related Financial Supporters
- American Missionary Association
- Transcript
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Darlington Md Apr. 13th/65
Revd Geo. Whipple:
My Dear- Sir:
I write to remind you that I am about to do as, in case of necessity I proposed to do when I left “the rooms” for this place- That is to resign after I started the school- I do not conceive it to be my duty to stay here in the woods and teach thirty four pupils when I have presented an opportunity to reach hundreds- I recognize this work of educating the Freed masses as preeminently ours. For that reason, we ought to have colored teachers when imbued with the right spirit and properly qualified in the front ranks in this work[.] An opportunity is offered me to go to Richmond. I hope to go as the first teacher or at least among the first, I know of the difficulty about obtain[in]g passes but I have reasons for my sanguinity- I hope to leave a good teacher in my place- Have just received word that my brother is very low at City Point Hospital- He was wounded five times at the taking of Petersburg- I will write more when I get time.
Yours very truly
E G Highgate
P.S. I expect to start very soon-
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