Edmonia Highgate (June 21, 1844 – October 16, 1870), was an educator, writer, and activist for freed people in the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. Though...

mother was Carrie Highgate, an "Octoroon" member of a prominent family in Syracuse, New York; her eldest sister was Edmonia Highgate. Their interracial...

teachers. In one incident, Stanley, along with another black teacher, Edmonia Highgate, wrote a letter to the superintendent of the Norfolk America Missionary...