| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Canada and the United States

Monica Maria Tetzlaff. Cultivating a New South: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 1852–1938. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xxi, 340. $39.95.

Abbie Holmes Christensen saw her life's work as that of wife, mother, and homemaker, yet she perceived no conflict between this traditional view and a lifetime of social activism. A white middle-class northern woman determined to improve the lives—and the futures—of southern African Americans, she devoted her energies to the New South during the years between Reconstruction and World War II. Supporting the causes in which she believed (including woman suffrage) through her memberships in major women's organizations, Christensen gave her public, immediate efforts to the black people of South Carolina's Sea Islands. As a young woman, she taught African-American children in Beaufort County. In middle age, she served as a trustee for the prominent Shanklin School, tirelessly raising funds for its support, as well as for the medical clinic and hospital founded by a black nurse in Beaufort.

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