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LAW & HISTORY > educator, diarist > Charlotte Forten Grimke
Ah, what a...
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Ah, what a grand, glorious day this has been. The dawn of freedom which it heralds may not break upon us at once; but it will surely come, and sooner, I believe, than we have ever dared hope before . . .
Source: Emancipation Day, Thursday, New Year's Day, Journal of Charlotte Forten, 1953.
-- Charlotte Forten Grimke, (Aug 17 1837-1914), US educator, diarist; She became the first black teacher to ex-slaves and began her bequest to humanity, a detailed journal of the Civil War era, published in 1953.