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A Woman's Life-Work A Woman's Life−Work Laura S. Haviland A Woman's Life−Work Table of Contents A Woman's Life−Work............................................................................................................................................1 Laura S. Haviland..........................................................................................................................................1 DEDICATION...............................................................................................................................................1 PREFACE......................................................................................................................................................2 CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE..........................................................................................................................5 CHAPTER II. BEREAVEMENTS..............................................................................................................17 CHAPTER III. ANTI−SLAVERY EXPERIENCES...................................................................................23 CHAPTER IV. AN OHIO SCHOOL−TEACHER......................................................................................41 CHAPTER V. THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY..................................................................................50 CHAPTER VI. FUGITIVE SLAVES ASSISTED......................................................................................60 CHAPTER VII. CHRISTIAN AND EDUCATIONAL WORK.................................................................74 CHAPTER VIII. FUGITIVES IN CANADA..............................................................................................87 CHAPTER IX. RESCUE OF SLAVES.......................................................................................................95 CHAPTER X. HOSPITAL WORK...........................................................................................................113 CHAPTER XI. SANITARY WORK.........................................................................................................129 CHAPTER XII. MISSION WORK IN NEW ORLEANS........................................................................147 CHAPTER XIII. FREEDMEN'S AID COMMISSION............................................................................165 CHAPTER XIV. HOME MISSION WORK.............................................................................................177 CHAPTER XV. EXPERIENCES AMONG FREEDMEN.......................................................................194 CHAPTER XVI. STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL. .....................................................................................205 CHAPTER XVII. CHRISTIAN LABOR AND RESULTS......................................................................207 CHAPTER XVIII. PRESENT CONDITION OF THE FREEDMEN.......................................................219 CHAPTER XIX. PROSPECTS OF THE FREEDMEN............................................................................228 i A Woman's Life−Work Laura S. Haviland This page copyright © 2002 Blackmask Online. http://www.blackmask.com • DEDICATION • PREFACE. • CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE. • CHAPTER II. BEREAVEMENTS. • CHAPTER III. ANTI−SLAVERY EXPERIENCES. • CHAPTER IV. AN OHIO SCHOOL−TEACHER. • CHAPTER V. THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY. • CHAPTER VI. FUGITIVE SLAVES ASSISTED. • CHAPTER VII. CHRISTIAN AND EDUCATIONAL WORK. • CHAPTER VIII. FUGITIVES IN CANADA. • CHAPTER IX. RESCUE OF SLAVES. • CHAPTER X. HOSPITAL WORK. • CHAPTER XI. SANITARY WORK. • CHAPTER XII. MISSION WORK IN NEW ORLEANS. • CHAPTER XIII. FREEDMEN'S AID COMMISSION. • CHAPTER XIV. HOME MISSION WORK. • CHAPTER XV. EXPERIENCES AMONG FREEDMEN. • CHAPTER XVI. STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL. • CHAPTER XVII. CHRISTIAN LABOR AND RESULTS. • CHAPTER XVIII. PRESENT CONDITION OF THE FREEDMEN. • CHAPTER XIX. PROSPECTS OF THE FREEDMEN. Produced by Skip Doughty, Tom Allen, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. A WOMAN'S LIFE−WORK: LABORS AND EXPERIENCES OF LAURA S. HAVILAND. DEDICATION to My two sons, and four daughters, and families; also to the A Woman's Life−Work 1 A Woman's Life−Work Home and Foreign Missionary Society, are these pages dedicated. The Author PREFACE. In presenting the following pages to the public, without the trace of an excellent scholar or eloquent orator, I fully realize my inability to compete with writers of the nineteenth century. With this incompetency in view, I have hesitated and delayed until three−score and thirteen years are closing over me. Yet as I am still spared to toil on a little longer in the great field so white to harvest, praying the Lord of the harvest to arm and send forth more laborers, because they are too few, I ask an indulgent public to allow my deep and abiding sympathies for the oppressed and sorrowing of every nation, class, or color, to plead my excuse for sending forth simple, unvarnished facts and experiences, hoping they may increase an aspiration for the active doing, instead of saying what ought to be done, with excusing self for want of ability, when it is to be found in Him who is saying, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is perfect in weakness. LAURA S. HAVILAND. OCTOBER, 1881. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE. ParentageEarly ImpressionsChildhood SkepticismReligious ExperienceThe Great LevelerMarriageRemoval to MichiganThe Semi−ChristianThe Despairing Backslider RestoredProscription Withdrawal from the Society of FriendsFounded Raisin Institute, CHAPTER II. BEREAVEMENTS. DreamBereavementsEarly WidowhoodTrialsDreamyVictory by FaithA Fugitive Slave EscapesMarriage of two Older Children, CHAPTER III. ANTI−SLAVERY EXPERIENCES. Baptist Deacon Convicted of the Sin of Slavery by his SlaveWillis Hamilton's Escape with his Slave−wife, Elsie, to CanadaRemoval to MichiganWhereabouts Discovered by Elsie's MasterDeeply Laid Scheme to Capture the Hamilton FamilyThreats of ViolenceSecond Attempt and DefeatDeath of the two Slave−holders, CHAPTER IV. AN OHIO SCHOOL−TEACHER. PREFACE. 2 A Woman's Life−Work A Traveling AgentSlave ClaimantJohn WhiteThreatsVisit to Jane WhiteInterview with William AllenEscape of SlavesIn Suspense Death of First−bornComforting DreamJohn White a PrisonerHis Release and Subsequent History, CHAPTER V. THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY. Two Slave Families EscapeStory of George and JamesA Mother and Daughter Leave a Boat bound for the Lower MarketSarah and two Young Men join our PartySeven are Conducted to CanadaRaisin Institute Suspended for an Academic YearReturn to CincinnatiMariaThreats of her MasterThe Escape of two Young Men CHAPTER VI. FUGITIVE SLAVES ASSISTED. Clara and Three Children RescuedJack Betrayed and Returned to BondageA Little Nurse Girl taken from her Owners in CincinnatiHow Zack was SavedCalvin Fairbanks Visited in PrisonFugitive Slaves Forwarded CHAPTER VII. CHRISTIAN AND EDUCATIONAL WORK. Visiting and Nursing the SickNine Slaves Arrive from Kentucky Richard Dillingham Dies in Tennessee PenitentiarySeven Slaves Conducted to FreedomTeach Six Months in Toledo CHAPTER VIII. FUGITIVES IN CANADA. Mission Among the Fugitives in CanadaReligious Revival Organization of a Christian Union ChurchEfforts of Missourians to Retake the Fugitive Slave, William Anderson, from CanadaThe Kentucky Slave−owner Whipped in the Old Barracks in Windsor in his Effort to Decoy Three Young Men back to SlaveryReopening School CHAPTER IX. RESCUE OF SLAVES. Escape of a Slave Family of SixA Slave Man Travels for a White Man and SucceedsTrip to ArkansasThe Story of George WilsonThe Slave−daughter under Mortgage Released by her MotherMintie Berry Purchases her HusbandJohn Brown HangedThe War Opens and takes Seventeen Students of Raisin InstituteFirst Trip to the Front with Supplies CHAPTER X. HOSPITAL WORK. CairoIncidents Preparatory to Removing Freedmen's Camp to Island No. 10Death of a ChildDisbursing Supplies and other Mission Work on the IslandStory of Uncle StephenHospital Visiting in Memphis, PREFACE. 3 A Woman's Life−Work TennesseeSurgeon Powers ReportedForty Slaves come into Camp ShilohSeven Slaves come from a Plantation seven miles below Memphis First Enlistment of Colored SoldiersMission Work in Columbus, KentuckyYoung Colored Man Shot by his Young MasterTurning of TablesReturn HomeOur Principal, E. A. Haight, Enlisted CHAPTER XI. SANITARY WORK. Organized Freedmen's Relief AssociationSolicit SuppliesAcademic Year Opened for 1863−4Sister Backus and Self leave for Fields of SufferingIncidents on the WayMission Work in Natchez, Mississippi Four Hundred Slaves Hanged and otherwise TorturedVisit to the CalabooseMission Work in Baton RougeArrival at New OrleansSketch of Persecutions CHAPTER XII. MISSION WORK IN NEW ORLEANS. Mission Work in New OrleansSoldiers and Prisoners Visited on Ship IslandPetition of Seventy Soldier Prisoners in behalf of Three Thousand of their Fellow PrisonersAppeal in behalf of Ship Island and Tortugas PrisonersMission Work at PlaquemineNatchezCapture of a Rebel steamerArrival at HomeRelease of the Three Thousand Banished Union Soldiers CHAPTER XIII. FREEDMEN'S AID COMMISSION. Refugees in KansasChildren of WantAfflicted FamilyScenes of DistressAgnes EverettQuantrell's RaidPoor White Trash HospitalsSupplies DistributedRefugee BuildingsOrphan Children Haviland HomeThomas Dean a PrisonerPetition for PardonPardon GrantedA Southern ClergymanMission SchoolAt Harper's Ferry and Washington. CHAPTER XIV. HOME MISSION WORK. Mission Work and Incidents in WashingtonMurdersAlexandria Richmond, VirginiaWilliamsburgFort
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