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Charlotte Forten, Nature Writer

by Mollie Barnes

Charlotte Forten’s Journals, especially the volumes that document the years when she worked as the first Black teacher at the Penn School in St. Helena, South Carolina (1862–1864), demonstrate the ways in which she imagines and represents nature through perspectives that bridge transcendentalism and radical abolition.

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