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  title info:
    title: Faith in education at the Skidaway Island Benedictine mission
  name:
    name part: Seifert, Laura
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gau
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Having survived the turmoil of Reconstruction, several hundred African American tenant farmers were settled on Skidaway Island, Georgia, leading a fairly quiet existence. In 1877, Benedictine monks intruded into this relatively safe, if desperately poor, haven and built a Catholic mission and boys' boarding school. For the next two decades, the Benedictines and locals negotiated for influence over islanders' religious convictions and education. Faith in Education at the Skidaway Island Benedictine Mission brings together the recovered archaeological data and extensive Benedictine archives to reconstruct the intersecting lives of monks, students, lay brothers and African American neighbors on Skidaway Island. Unlike a purely historical treatment, this book amplifies the documentary evidence with archaeological findings, including glass from arched church windows, writing slate and slate pencil fragments, a kerosene lamp and harmonica fragments. The narrative balances the chronological story of the Skidaway Island mission with the larger history of African American education in Savannah and Chatham County from 1865 to the mission's closure circa 1900. Ultimately, the analysis shows how the roots of our educational system resulted in inequities today, particularly because racism is a prominent thread that connects past and present problems.
  note: Laura Seifert.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ga
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Benedictines
    geographic: Georgia
    geographic: Skidaway Island
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Catholic Church
    topic: Missions
    geographic: Georgia
    geographic: Skidaway Island
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Catholic Church
    topic: Education
    geographic: Georgia
    geographic: Skidaway Island
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Missions
    topic: Educational work
    geographic: Georgia
    geographic: Skidaway Island
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Skidaway Island (Ga.)
    topic: Church history
  classification: BX3009.G4 S45 2024
  classification: 271/.10975659
  identifier: 9780820367200
  identifier: 0820367206
  identifier: 9780820367217
  identifier: 0820367214
  identifier: 9780820367231
  identifier: 9780820367224
  identifier: 2024016835
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241011
    record change date: 20260130203405.0
    record identifier: in00005612276