Sowing the Seed: Oberlin Female Missionary Teachers of Southern Blacks, 1863-1875

<p>The American Missionary Association (AMA) proved to be the largest and most enduring of the benevolent societies which sponsored teachers in the South. Local affiliates of the society were organized throughout the East and Midwest to raise funds, gather donations, and enlist teachers. Many of those who went South as teachers were recruited from colleges, theological seminaries, female seminaries, and normal schools in these areas. Not surprisingly, a significant group of individuals who were sent South by the AMA was recruited from Oberlin College. Most of those who came from Oberlin College, as was true of the missionary teachers on the whole, were women.</p><p>This paper explores this particular group of evangelical Oberlin women who became teachers and missionaries to the freed-people. It looks at how their experience in the Southern work brought together both the larger historical cycle of post-Civil War reform and their own life cycle patterns as evangelical women. These two cycles would be important in shaping the motivations of the women, their perceptions of the work, and their conceptions of reform.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

BA

Level thesis:degree_level

bachelors

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor dc:publisher

Oberlin College Honors Theses

Year dc:date

1981

Author dc:creator

• Spielberg, Anne

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lasser, Carol

• American History
• Education History
• History
• Religious History
• Post-Civil War
• American Missionary Association
• AMA
• teacher
• Oberlin College
• female
• South

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
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Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1363351652

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:etd.ohiolink.edu:oberlin1363351652