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Cultivating a New South: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 18521938
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The story of a Yankee reformer and her life in Beaufort County, South CarolinaBorn into a Massachusetts abolitionist family, Abbie Holmes Christensen (18521938) epitomized the Yankee reformer spirit of the nineteenth century. Well educated and passionate about human rights, she moved to Beaufort, South Carolina, with her parents in 1864 as part of the Port Royal Experiment. In 1870, as a teenager, she began teaching black students. During her life she labored to educate South Carolinas African Americans, fought for womens equal participation in politics, and eventually took a role in the Socialist Party of America. Monica Maria Tetzlaffs biography of this activist reformer reveals not only the life of an intriguing individual, but also the history of the Sea Islands of South Carolina during a neglected erafrom Reconstruction to the New Deal.Tetzlaff chronicles Abbie Holmess education at Mount Holyoke College, her return to Beaufort, and her marriage in 1875 to Niels Christensen, a Danish immigrant and former captain of Colored Troops in the Union army. Tetzlaff depicts the intensity of Christensens private and public life as the mother of six children and as a tireless reformer engaged in temperance and womens suffrage movements. Together with black South Carolinians, Christensen did pioneering work as a Gullah folklorist, and established an African American agricultural school and hospital. In cooperation with white southern women, she promoted the conservation of wildlife, and the greening of town spaces.As Tetzlaff recounts an uncommon life story, she also sheds light on the time and place in which Christensen worked. Through Christensens biography, Tetzlaff illumines the collapse, recovery, and second collapse of agriculture in South Carolinas lowcountry, African Americans brief equality and second subjugation under the forces of Jim Crow, and the transformation of Beaufort County by industry, migration, and national politics.
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