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This chapter accounts for Rachel’s childhood as a farm girl with exposure to people of difference (African American and Italian) who worked on the farm. Her religiosity and spirituality are described in terms of Quaker belief as well as in her meetings with people from different faith traditions. Throughout her childhood, we see Rachel as socially awkward and spiritually curious.
Rachel tells us about her education, first in a one-room school, and then in a Quaker high school that was blended into the public school system where she grew up in southern New Jersey. It is here that Rachel tells us of her love of nature, which will be alluded to in the later chapters.
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Rachel’s siblings: Walter Haines Davis, (1890–1979); Thomas Weatherby Davis, (1893–1964); Amy Beulah Davis Sinnickson, (1896–1985); Charles Toy Davis, (1899–1933); and Allen Howard Davis, (1906–1970). Source: Find a Grave (accessed 29 April 2019).
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Immigration History Research Center, Box #42: Miscellaneous non accessioned files.
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“Little Brown baby with sparkling eyes/come to your pappy and sit on his knee/What you been doing, a-making pies? Look at that bib you’re as dirty as me.” Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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The Grange Movement was begun in 1867 as a means toward improving relations between members in agricultural communities. It is a rural phenomenon, and a social as well as political organization.
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Rosenberg, J. (2019). Childhood, Early Schooling, and Exposure to Cultural Diversity (1895–1910). In: Intercultural Education, Folklore, and the Pedagogical Thought of Rachel Davis DuBois. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26222-8_3
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