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词条 Sallie Holley
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Education

  3. Career

  4. Legacy

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Infobox person
| name = Sallie Holley
| image = Sallie Holley (cropped).jpg
| birth_date = February 17, 1818
| birth_place = Canandaigua, New York
| death_date = January 12, 1893
| death_place = New York City, NY
}}Sarah (Sallie) Holley (February 17, 1818 - January 12, 1893) served as an educator to African Americans during the mid-1800s, becoming an avid member of the American Anti-Slavery Society.[1] Specifically, Holley worked closely with Caroline Putnam to establish the Holley School, which still stands today.[2]

Early life

Born in Canandaigua, New York, Holley was interested in education and reading from a young age. In 1831, she attended boarding school in Lyons, NY, where she there attended her first anti-slavery lecture.[2] Yet while this was Holley's first official lecture, it was far from her first exposure to the subject. Growing up, Holley was heavily influenced by the antislavery beliefs of her father, Myron Holley, who was also a strong advocate of religious liberalism.[3] Primarily, he served as the original founder of the Liberty Party, which was the first political party to make anti-slavery a political issue.[2]

Education

Holley's inspiration for her later abolitionist work further strengthened when she continued her education at Oberlin College in 1847, where she encountered a biracial school community in an attempt to pursue a classical curriculum.[4] At Oberlin, Holley also met Caroline Putnam, who quickly became Holley's lifelong companion and later work partner. After graduating in 1851, Holley became an avid member of the American Anti-Slavery Society. This proved to be a rare feat at the time, for not only did women rarely advocate for their freedom or that of others, but they even more rarely did so publicly, like Holley.[1] Consequently, upon graduation, Holley traveled on a lecture circuit discussing the importance of abolition with Putnam by her side. Yet after this lecture circuit, Putnam decided to focus on teaching, specifically those now freedmen of Lottsburg, VA.[5]

Career

Even while teaching, Holley continued to motivate and influence others through her speeches and thoughts. Specifically, after an 1851 speech Holley gave at a church service about anti-slavery and the abolitionist movement, one person wrote,

Miss Holley gave us an earnest, powerful, and deeply interesting address. Everybody gave the best possible attention, and as she related several thrilling and affecting facts, the big tears coursed down many a cheek. It was a time of stirring sympathy and awakening interest in the cause of the oppressed and crushed slave. At the close she offered a very touching and simple prayer,[6] all with the desire to put an end to what she coined as the "atrocious hatred of color."[7]

Legacy

After having followed Putnam to Lottsburg, VA, Holley purchased the land in 1869 for what soon became a more permanent location of the Holley Graded School. Modeled after Oberlin, the Holley School served as a private institution with both an integrated faculty and student body, where younger students attended classes during the day and older students attended classes at night. Putnam received ownership of the grounds of the Holley School when Holley died in 1893, who then passed the land to a black board of trustees upon her death in order to continue to promote black education. The Lottsburg school district then shortly oversaw the operations of the school. Because of a growing student body, renovations were made to the school in 1922 and finished in 1933, building the Holley School schoolhouse that now stands as a community center today.[8]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://civilwarwomenblog.com/sallie-holley/|title=Sallie Holley|last=MacLean|first=Maggie|date=January 25, 2016|website=Civil War Women: Women of the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras 1849-1877|publisher=|access-date=January 19, 2017}}
2. ^{{Cite book|title=A Life for Liberty: Anti-slavery and Other Letters of Sallie Holley|last=Holley|first=Sallie|publisher=G.P Putnam's sons|year=1899|isbn=|location=|pages=25, 37|quote=|via=Google Books}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://etext.ku.edu/view?docId=ksrlead/ksrl.kc.holleysallie.xml;route=ksrlead;brand=ksrlead;query=|title=Guide to Letter from Sallie Holley|last=University of Kansas Libraries: Kenneth Spencer Research Library|first=|date=2006|website=University of Kansas Libraries|publisher=|access-date=January 26, 2017}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00900.html|title=Sallie Holley|last=Pease|first=William|date=February 2000|website=American National Biography Online|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=January 19, 2017}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://holleyschool.weebly.com/about-holley-school.html|title=About Holley School|last=|first=|date=|website=Holley Graded School|publisher=|access-date=January 31, 2017}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://solomon.nwld.alexanderstreet.com/cgi-bin/asp/philo/nwld/getdoc.pl?S215-D013|title=Letter from Sallie Holley to Samuel Drummond Porter, Jane Porter, Almira Porter, Elizabeth Porter, Maria Porter and Susan Farley Porter, June 16, 1851|last=Holley|first=Sallie|date=|website=North American Women's Letters and Diaries|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=February 13, 2017}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/the-reconstruction-wars-begin/?_r=1&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Opinion&action=keypress®ion=FixedLeft&pgtype=Blogs|title=The Reconstruction Wars Begin|last=Chaput|first=Erik|date=February 1, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|work=|via=}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://holleyschoolhistories.weebly.com/history-of-holley-school.html|title=History of Holley School|last=Shelden|first=Mary Lamb|date=January 1, 2013|website=Holley School Histories|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=February 9, 2017}}

External links

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