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Preferred Citation:

Margaret Newbold Thorpe's "Life in Virginia by a Yankee Teacher" and "Life in North Carolina", Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries

Acquisition Information:

Gift of William & Mary Professor Emeritus of History, Richard L. Morton, in 1951

Scope and Contents

Photostatic copy of "Life in Virginia by a Yankee Teacher", an account by a missionary school teacher, Margaret Newbold Thorpe, who taught black students at Fort Magruder and in Williamsburg, Virginia from 1866-1867. Photostatic copy of "Life in North Carolina," September 1869-1870, an account written by Margaret Newbold Thorpe Stokes about Warrenton, North Carolina. The accounts were apparently written in 1881 and 1907.

The photostatic copies were likely made in 1951, when gifted to Special Collections.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• African Americans--Education--Virginia
• African Americans--Virginia--Williamsburg
• African Americans--Virginia--Williamsburg--History
• Education--Virginia--Williamsburg--19th century
• Morton, Richard Lee, 1889-1974
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• Teachers--Diaries
• United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
• Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century
• Women teachers
• Women teachers--United States--History--19th century