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Includes:

• Waterbury, M. Seven Years Among the Freedmen.Original cloth binding. Illustrated. 198 pp. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged.  T.B. Arnold, 1893. With a 1909 presentation inscription from the publisher. (Rubberstamp name of another on front free endpaper, and light soiling to cloth).
• Emerson, Harriet E. Annals of a Harvester, Reviewing Forty Years of Home Missionary Work in Southern States 96pp. Original cloth binding. Illustrated. Arthur W. Emerson, [1915].

Maria Waterbury was a missionary teacher from Illinois who went South after the Civil War to help educate “freed” Blacks in rural Mississippi at a time when missionary schools were targets of Ku Klux Klan terror. Emerson gives an account of her father, a Methodist minister from New Hampshire who, after serving as Chaplain of a Union regiment in Florida during the Civil War, returned there to establish schools for Freedmen. The author herself worked in Georgia among Black women for the Methodist Home Missionary Society.