FREED SLAVES CIVIL WAR GREENSBORO NC PA OHIO QUAKERS WARNERSVILLE ABOLITION 1ST

Description: Yardley Warner:The Freedman's Friend: His life and times: with his journal and letters reproduced in an appendixby Stafford Allen WarnerPublished by Wessex Press, UK, 1957. First Edition. Very good hardcover, in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, edge-wear and small tears to dj have been repaired with archival tape. Illustrated, 8vo, 331 pages plus index, maroon cloth boards, gilt titling to spine. Partial Contents: Slave Ship “Brookes”, Civil War, N.E. Hospital for Children, Cunard Line Bothnia, Pales School Bell, The Warner Institute, The Little Davie School N. Carolina, Quaker thought & custom, Journal & Letters, plus much much more.Yardley Warner, educator, lawyer, minister, and freedman's friend, established the neighborhood now known as Warnersville in Greensboro, North Carolina selling lots to African Americans.Following the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 Friends (Quakers) in New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere saw the urgent need for assisting the newly-emancipated enslaved people. The Friends Freedman's Association, formed in Philadelphia, raised money to establish schools for the formerly enslaved people but soon realized that there was a greater demand for well-trained black teachers. The association established normal schools in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and other Southern states. Warner spent several years traveling to these places, helping to open new schools, visiting those already in existence, distributing literature, and giving aid as required.As a part of this work, he left Philadelphia in 1865 and went to Greensboro, where he bought 35.5 acres of land in the southeast quadrant of the city and sold it to free blacks in small parcels at a low cost. He also built a schoolhouse, organized the Warner Day School for black children, and taught black adults crafts and agriculture. Warner, who maintained his home in this black community, was severely criticized, even ostracized, by whites. The area became known as Warnersville, and, although the old homes were replaced by a redevelopment housing project, its residents still referred to it by this name in the late twentieth century. In 1972 grateful descendants of these early residents erected a monument to Warner's memory.When this phase of his work in the South was completed, he spent several years as the superintendent of Pales Monthly Meeting School in Radnorshire, Wales. While there he married Anne Elizabeth Horne, matron of the Hospital for Children in London, and they became the parents of Stafford Allen, Joseph Yardley, and Charles Horne. The family returned to America in 1881 and lived in Jonesboro, Tenn., where Warner conducted the Freedman's Normal School, also known as the Warner Institute. In 1883 they went to Burlington, N.J., for a brief time before being received into the membership of Springfield Monthly Meeting of Friends, near High Point, N.C., in 1884. They resided at Bush Hill, now Archdale, where Warner taught in the Little Davie, a private school for black children.Warner died of typhoid fever at age seventy and was buried in the Springfield Monthly Meeting Cemetery. After his death Anne Warner and her three young sons returned to England. Loc: C2StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackFREED SLAVES CIVIL WAR GREENSBORO NC PA OHIO QUAKERS WARNERSVILLE ABOLITION 1ST Yardley Warner:The Freedman's Friend: His life and times: with his journal and letters reproduced in an appendixby Stafford Allen WarnerPublished by Wessex Press, UK, 1957. First Edition. Very good hardcover, in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, edge-wear and small tears to dj have been repaired with archival tape. Illustrated, 8vo, 331 pages plus index, maroon cloth boards, gilt titling to spine. Partial Contents: Slave Ship “Brookes”, Civil War, N.E. Hospital for Children, Cunard Line Bothnia, Pales School Bell, The Warner Institute, The Little Davie School N. Carolina, Quaker thought & custom, Journal & Letters, plus much much more.Yardley Warner, educator, lawyer, minister, and freedman's friend, established the neighborhood now known as Warnersville in Greensboro, North Carolina selling lots to African Americans.Following the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 Friends (Quakers) in New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere saw the urgent need for assisting the newly-emancipated enslaved people. The Friends Freedman's Association, formed in Philadelphia, raised money to establish schools for the formerly enslaved people but soon realized that there was a greater demand for well-trained black teachers. The association established normal schools in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and other Southern states. Warner spent several years traveling to these places, helping to open new schools, visiting those already in existence, distributing literature, and giving aid as required.As a part of this work, he left Philadelphia in 1865 and went to Greensboro, where he bought 35.5 acres of land in the southeast quadrant of the city and sold it to free blacks in small parcels at a low cost. He also built a schoolhouse, organized the Warner Day School for black children, and taught black adults crafts and agriculture. Warner, who maintained his home in this black community, was severely criticized, even ostracized, by whites. The area became known as Warnersville, and, although the old homes were replaced by a redevelopment housing project, its residents still referred to it by this name in the late twentieth century. In 1972 grateful descendants of these early residents erected a monument to Warner's memory.When this phase of his work in the South was completed, he spent several years as the superintendent of Pales Monthly Meeting School in Radnorshire, Wales. While there he married Anne Elizabeth Horne, matron of the Hospital for Children in London, and they became the parents of Stafford Allen, Joseph Yardley, and Charles Horne. The family returned to America in 1881 and lived in Jonesboro, Tenn., where Warner conducted the Freedman's Normal School, also known as the Warner Institute. In 1883 they went to Burlington, N.J., for a brief time before being received into the membership of Springfield Monthly Meeting of Friends, near High Point, N.C., in 1884. They resided at Bush Hill, now Archdale, where Warner taught in the Little Davie, a private school for black children.Warner died of typhoid fever at age seventy and was buried in the Springfield Monthly Meeting Cemetery. After his death Anne Warner and her three young sons returned to England. Loc: C2

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Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated

Format: Hardcover

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Number of Pages: 331

Topic: American History, Civil War, Cultural History, Historic Figures, Local History, Modern History, Religious History, Social History, World History, Slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, African American History

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Vintage: Yes

Era: 1950s

Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

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Edition: First Edition

Language: English

Publication Year: 1957

Book Title: Yardley Warner: TheFreedman's Friend: His life and times

Intended Audience: Adults, Young Adults

Author: Stafford Allen Warner

Original Language: English