April 12, 2024
1864 Slave Teacher Letter Mulatto Children Plantation Owner Tripp
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1864 Slave Teacher Letter Mulatto Children Plantation Owner Tripp Teacher Goes into Negro Cabin Gen Saxton This is a wonderful original handwritten letter from 1864 from Catherine Porter Noyes, a young woman who traveled to South Carolina to teach freed slaves towards the end of the Civil War. It was written from St Helena Island, South Carolina and has great content throughout. It says in part, Several weeks ago Gen Saxton issued a proclamation to all the blacks to assemble on that day at Camp Shaw near Beaufort where a sword was to be presented to Gen S another Col Higginson… It soon grew so cold that we were obliged to go into a Negro cabin to warm ourselves and while there I took down and put up my hair to no small amusement of a roomful of staring darkies. My net pleased them particularly and they shouted out, Hand him behind ma’am…I saw an extremely pretty mulatto girl there who as Miss Ware afterwards told me is the daughter of Clarence or Eddings Tripp, what a horrible thing it was for these men to hold their own children in slavery… Check out my other items !
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