Charcoal and Chalk - Burlingame, Flora Beach
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The Civil War has ended, and the slaves have been freed. True freedom comes with learning, but who will teach them? John Ogilvie comes to America fresh out of school in Scotland, and is captivated by the idea of teaching the freed slaves. Putting his personal dreams on hold, he is sent to Texas by the American Missionary Association to work with the Freedmen's Bureau, and finds himself trying to teach classes to blacks in a dilapidated school while battling hatred, the Ku Klux Klan, a deadly epidemic, and shady politicians. His dedication and perseverance wins him the devotion of his students…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The Civil War has ended, and the slaves have been freed. True freedom comes with learning, but who will teach them? John Ogilvie comes to America fresh out of school in Scotland, and is captivated by the idea of teaching the freed slaves. Putting his personal dreams on hold, he is sent to Texas by the American Missionary Association to work with the Freedmen's Bureau, and finds himself trying to teach classes to blacks in a dilapidated school while battling hatred, the Ku Klux Klan, a deadly epidemic, and shady politicians. His dedication and perseverance wins him the devotion of his students and, ultimately, the love of a woman. This novel, written by John Ogilvie's great-granddaughter, is based on his letters, newspaper clippings, editorials, sermons, and Ogilvie's own first-person account written in later years. It is a sweeping tale of the sacrifice and courage of these devoted and little-known educational missionaries, who paved the way for racial equality in the South.
Autorenporträt
Flora Beach Burlingame has had three careers: Motherhood (on-going), Paralegal (retired), and Journalist/writer (on-going). She has lived in various California locations and currently resides in beautiful, western Washington State. During career #3 she won awards for her short stories, published free-lance magazine articles, and served as contributing editor for the Mariposa Museum and History Center's quarterly newsletter. For a number of years, she wrote a column and features for The Fresno Bee, a major California newspaper, and during that time was commissioned by The Bee to write a hundred years of history on three California counties for a Centennial edition. Flora's interest in history came from her father, a high school history teacher, who she says, "always knew the history of anywhere we traveled." Stories of the past dominate Flora's writing. Though Path of Progress is a novel, it is based on actual sermons and writings of her great grandfather.