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Source: WMAR

4/28/2022

NMAAHC and Local Historians Team Up to Preserve Tale of Maryland Freedmen's School

"A month before the Civil War formally ended, a 20-year-old Black woman and prolific writer named Edmonia Highgate came from upstate New York to Harford County to launch a school for former slaves."

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NMAAHC and Local Historians Team Up to Preserve Tale of Maryland Freedmen's School