The Mt. Pleasant Home for Destitute Children at Mt. Pleasant, S.C., Incorporated June, 1883
- [South Carolina , 1884
[South Carolina, 1884. Very good.. 8pp., single sheet folded into eight panels. 24mo. Moderate soiling and foxing, even toning. A scarce promotional pamphlet for the Mt. Pleasant Home for Destitute Children. The home was founded in 1881 by Abby Munro, a Philadelphia Quaker, and served as the first orphanage for African American children in South Carolina. The text relates the need for such a home in the state, as well as a bit of its history: "More than a million of colored children in the southern states are growing up in ignorance and vice...To save these children from ignorance and crime and make them intelligent, honest and industrious is not only a charity, but a christian duty." One panel relates the "Present Financial Condition" of the home. Scarce.
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Title
The Mt. Pleasant Home for Destitute Children at Mt. Pleasant, S.C., Incorporated June, 1883
Author
[African Americana]: [South Carolina]
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
[South Carolina
Date
1884