Abstract:Sarah Jane Foster was a woman keenly aware of the relativity of freedom. As a teacher of newly freed black children, women, and men in West Virginia and South Carolina from 1865 to 1868, she faced daily reminders of the restrictions still on persons who were technically free. And like her young black students, she had to live within the limits set
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