[American Missionary Association]:

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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Vol. X. No. 3. [with:] THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Vol. X. No. 4 [wrapper titles]. Two consecutive postwar issues of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, the long-running monthly publication of the American Missionary Association (AMA). The first issue was published when the AMA was formed in 1846, with the primary goals of abolishing slavery and educating African Americans. After abolition, the organization focused on its second goal, founding over five hundred schools and colleges in the South during the Civil War and the following years; in fact, the AMA founded more schools in the period than even the Freedmen's Bureau. Their periodical had a wide circulation and ran more or less continuously until March 1934.These two issues are for March and April of 1866, during the AMA's very busy months following the end of the Civil War. Unsurprisingly, the content in these issues focuses heavily on the conditions and progress of formerly enslaved Blacks in the South, and has contributions by a variety of men and women, including ordained ministers and volunteers. In addition to stories of difficult conditions and violence against freedmen, another theme which emerges is the hatred directed towards White Northerners as they attempt to live and work in the South. Miss Julia Shearman in Lexington, Kentucky, for example, describes how she attends services at Black churches (and finds that she rather prefers them, in fact) since the White churches refuse to let her attend once

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