(EDUCATION) LOCKWOOD REV LEWIS C Mary S Peake the Colored Te

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(EDUCATION.) LOCKWOOD, REV. LEWIS C. Mary S. Peake, the Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe. Engraved frontispiece of Ms. Peake. 64 pages, tall 12mo. Original blind-stamped green cloth, with the title in gilt on the spine; binding slightly skewed with light wear to base of the spine. Boston: American Tract Society, circa 1870's

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Scarce narrative of the life and teaching of Mary Smith Peake, born Mary Smith Kelsey (1823-1862), an African American teacher and humanitarian. Peake founded a school for the children of ex-slaves in the fall of 1861 at Hampton, Virginia. Classes began under what came to be called the Emancipation Oak in Hampton Virginia, near Fort Monroe. Peake was the first "Creole" teacher hired by the American Missionary Association. She is credited for helping found what became Hampton University in 1868.