Heading South to Teach (eBook)

The World of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1845

Kim Tolley (Autor)

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2015
278 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2434-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life, and encounters with slavery. Drawing on these journals and hundreds of other documents, Kim Tolley uses Hutchison's life to explore the significance of education in transforming American society in the early national period. Tolley examines the roles of ambitious, educated women like Hutchison who became teachers for economic, spiritual, and professional reasons. During this era, working women faced significant struggles when balancing career ambitions with social conventions about female domesticity. Hutchison's eventual position as head of a respected southern academy was as close to equity as any woman could achieve in any field. By recounting Hutchison's experiences--from praying with slaves and free blacks in the streets of Raleigh and establishing an independent school in Georgia to defying North Carolina law by teaching slaves to read--Tolley offers a rich microhistory of an antebellum teacher. Hutchison's story reveals broad social and cultural shifts and opens an important window onto the world of women's work in southern education.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.8.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 7 halftones, 4 tables, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Neuzeit bis 1918
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: abolition movement • academy teaching • Amenia New York • American Anti-Slavery Society mail campaign in the South • antebellum evangelism • anti-slavery and the problem of emancipation • arson and insurrection • augusta georgia • Charlotte Female Academy • church discipline • curriculum and instruction in female academies • early national Raleigh • evangelism in antebellum academies • evangelism of slaves • female benevolence in antebellum America • female educational entrepreneurs • female education in the antebellum South • gradual emancipation • Joseph Gales • Litchfield Female Academy • Lunsford Lane • marriage and family life in the antebellum Presbyterian Church • marriage and separation in antebellum America • married women teachers in antebellum America • moral philosophy textbooks and slavery • North Carolina • Presbyterian church discipline and family life • Raleigh Academy • Salisbury Female Academy • Second Great Awakening • single women teachers • slave insurrection • slave resistance and arson • slavery and anti-literacy laws • social mores and marriage • social networks and antebellum churches • Southern female teachers • Susan Nye Hutchison • the • the competition of men and women for leadership of antebellum Southern female academies • the division of the Presbyterian Church • the legal status of antebellum women • the Presbyterian Church's 1818 "Expression of Views" on slavery • the Protestant churches and slavery • Troy Female Seminary • widows in antebellum America • william paley • women and poverty in antebellum America • women in the antebellum Presbyterian Church
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2434-6 / 1469624346
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2434-1 / 9781469624341