Samuel Gridley Howe

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Samuel Gridley Howe


Born
November 10, 1801

Died
January 09, 1876


Samuel Gridley Howe was a nineteenth century United States physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind. He organized and was the first director of the Perkins Institution.

An abolitionist, in 1863, he was one of three men appointed by the Secretary of War to the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, to investigate conditions of freedmen in the South since the Emancipation Proclamation and recommend how they could be aided in their transition to freedom. In addition to traveling to the South, Howe traveled to Canada West (now Ontario, Canada), where thousands of former slaves had escaped to freedom and established new lives; he interviewed freedmen as well as government officials in Canada.
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Letters and Journals of Sam...

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An Historical Sketch of the...

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The Refugees From Slavery I...

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Training and Teaching Idiots

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