The Teacher Who Saw Her Reading in the Cotton Field
In 1885, a seven-year-old girl named Mary McLeod walked five miles each day to a one-room schoolhouse in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the fifteenth...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 1:43-51.
In 1885, a seven-year-old girl named Mary McLeod walked five miles each day to a one-room schoolhouse in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the fifteenth of seventeen children born to former slaves, and she spent her mornings picking cotton before the long walk to class. Nobody in Sumter County expected much from Mayesville — it was a dusty crossroads town with little to offer the world.…
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