Edmonia Highgate

Biography

Edmonia Highgate (June 21, 1844 – October 16, 1870), was an educator, writer, and activist for freed people in the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. Though born in Syracuse, New York, Highgate's work with the American Missionary Association brought her south to teach freed slaves in locations such as Norfolk, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Highgate's writings for the Christian Recorder establish her as an early representation of the intersection of Protestantism and Black transcendentalism.

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