Freedmen extract includes diary of Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum
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- Created Date
- 1865
- Description
Pages 15 through 24 of a pamphlet containing diary entries from Mrs. S. A. Martha Canfield with regard to the Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum that she founded. Mrs. Canfield observed the efforts of Rev. I. J. Hoile with the colored schools of the city and sought to help him expand his work. With the help of the Memphis citizenry, a Board of Trustees, the Freedmen's Bureau, the military, and benevolent agencies, she set up the Asylum in the former Charleston Hotel in November of 1864.
- Creator
Canfield, S.A. Martha
- Partner
- Digital Library of Tennessee
- Contributing Institution
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Collection
- Extracts from Documents in the Office of the General Superintendent of Refugees and Freedmen
Reconstruction and the African American Legacy in Tennessee - Publisher
- Freedmen Press Print
- Location
- Memphis (Tenn.)
- Type
- text
- Rights
- No copyright - United States: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Chicago citation style
- Canfield, S.A. Martha. Freedmen extract includes diary of Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum. 1865. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/reconaa/id/271. (Accessed December 10, 2023.)
- APA citation style
- Canfield, S.A. Martha, (1865) Freedmen extract includes diary of Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/reconaa/id/271
- MLA citation style
- Canfield, S.A. Martha. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/reconaa/id/271>.