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Presents excerpts from the diary of Charlotte Forten, a free African American teenager who lived in Massachusetts before the Civil War.

Presents excerpts from the diary of Charlotte Forten, a free African American teenager who lived in Massachusetts before the Civil War.

The diary of a sixteen-year-old free African American who lived in Massachusettts in 1854, records her schooling, participation in the antislavery movement, and concern for an arrested fugitive slave. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.

A biography of the African American woman from a prosperous Philadelphia family who devoted herself to educating newly freed slaves after the Civil War.

A biography of the nineteenth-century black woman who taught newly-freed slaves.

Biography of Forten, a Philadelphian from a prominent African American family, who was a teacher during the Civil War.

The diary of a sixteen-year-old free African-American who lived in Massachusetts in 1854 records her schooling, participation in the antislavery movement, and concern for an arrested fugitive slave. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.