Northern abolitionist women gave up genteel lives to educate freed people

Evidence

The Schoolteacher is an unfair quadroon beauty. Her family knows William Lloyd Garrison, and Whittier writes futile poems to her and her abolitionist sisters. She abandoned her novels in French and verses in Latin to come south and teach the freed people of Port Royal. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 750

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how the Port Royal experiment and northern abolitionist volunteers functioned as concrete infrastructure of emancipation.