Carolina QuotesA boy, however meager his equipment and shallow his pretentions, had only to declare a floating intention to study theology and he could get all the support, encouragement and stimulus he needed, be absolved from work and invested beforehand with all the dignity of his far away office. While a self-supporting girl had to struggle on by teaching in the summer and working after school hours to keep up with her board bills, and actually to fight her way against positive discouragements to the higher education; till one such girl one day flared out and told the principal “the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates.”
Anna J. Cooper Carolinian
Source
p. 77
- work
- A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892)
- year
- 1892
- locator
- p. 77
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