Lifting Thomas by Barr Roberta (1 results)
Published by Woman's Department of Board of Missions for Freedmen; Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., 516 Bessemer Building), (Pittsburgh, Pa, 1915
- First Edition
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Add to basketUnbound. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. About fine. A financial appeal for Freedmen schools, discussing the life of Thomas Alston, one of the African-American students at Albion Academy, in Franklinton, North Carolina, who eventually opened his own school. In 1883, the Freedman's Committee was formally incorporated as the Board of Missions for Freedmen, to educate and supply black teachers and preachers in support of black schools, churches, colleges, and seminaries in the Southern United States. In 1923, the Freedmen's Board was one of several boards and agencies which merged to become the Board of National Missions. Not in *Blockson*; not in *Work*. Unrecorded by *OCLC*.…
