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Title: Mary S. Peake
The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe

Author: Lewis C. Lockwood

Release Date: March 4, 2007 [EBook #20744]

Language: English

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MARY S. PEAKE,

The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe.

BY REV. LEWIS C. LOCKWOOD,
FIRST MISSIONARY TO THE FREEDMEN AT FORTRESS MONROE, 1862.

WITH AN APPENDIX.

PUBLISHED BY THE
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,
28 CORNHILL, BOSTON.

[Illustration: Mary S. Peake]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE

Birth and Parentage.--Education.--Religious
Convictions.--Prayers in the Tomb.--Union with
the Church.--Labors for the Poor.--Marriage. 5

CHAPTER II.

Commencement of the Mission at Fortress Monroe.--Flight
of the Rebels from Hampton.--Burning of the
Town.--The Place reoccupied by Freedmen. 16

CHAPTER III.

Opening of Religious Services and Schools.--Mrs. Peake
a Teacher.--Singing in the Schools.--Christmas Festival. 30

CHAPTER IV.

Failure of Health.--Religious Joy.--Farewell
Messages.--Death.--Funeral.--Conclusion. 39

APPENDIX. 53

MARY S. PEAKE.

CHAPTER I.

Birth and Parentage.--Education.--Religious
Convictions.--Prayers in the Tomb.--Union with the
Church.--Labors for the Poor.--Marriage.

The subject of this narrative was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1823.
Her maiden name was Mary Smith Kelsey. Her mother was a free colored
woman, very light, and her father a white man--an Englishman of rank
and culture. She was a very lovely child in person and manners, and as
she grew up, developed traits of character which made her a universal
favorite.

When she was six years old, her