Word: forten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabin, but her next nine novels treated Calvinism as the enemy. Married to a Presbyterian minister who had visions of the Devil, worried that her son might be damned because he had died unrepentant, she pleaded with the abolitionists not to judge their fellow men so harshly. Charlotte Forten, a winsome Philadelphia Negro girl, left behind a diary that tells of her budding romance with a blue-blooded Boston abolitionist, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, on the romantic Sea Islands off the South Carolina coast. She was schooling newly liberated slaves; he was leading a Negro regiment. But the colonel suddenly...
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