From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College by Ethel Morgan Smith

From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College

Ethel Morgan Smith

168 pages hardcover 1999

2 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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In 1842 Charles Lewis Cocke arrived in Roanoke, Virginia, with sixteen slaves; there, he founded Hollins College, an elite woman's school. Many of the early students also brought their slaves to the college with them. Upon Emancipation some of the...

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