Ellen Murray

Ellen Murray was an abolitionist, educator, and founder of the Penn School on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Murray is remembered for dedicating her time to helping newly freed slaves gain an education and practice self-sufficiency.

Occupation Murray began her teaching career at the Oaks Plantation in Newport in 1862. Murray highlighted the urgency for moral conviction regarding slavery.

Late life and death The Penn School experienced various financial problems in the late 1800s, and the families of both Ellen and Laura had donated funds to their school. Murray's partner, Laura M. Towne, died in 1901, leaving her in partnership with Towne's second appointed partner, Hollis Burke Frissell. Murray became the principal of the school and continued to refrain from using the new industrial curriculum that Frissell insisted on using. She was remembered as a committed abolitionist and educator who dedicated her time to helping the uneducated.

List of works Poems

"The Martyr of December 2, 1859" (October 26, 1861)

"Deus Eversor!" (November 16, 1861)

"Our Watchword" (May 10, 1862)

"Tamar's Prayer" (August 2, 1862)

"Half-Way" (October 4, 1862)

"The First Day of January, 1863" (December 27, 1862)

"God with Us" (April 18, 1863)

"Sunset on Edisto Beach" (July 11, 1863)

"Moonlight on Edisto Beach" (July 18, 1863)

"Col. Robert G. Shaw" (August 22, 1863)

"The Workingman" (January 30, 1864)

"The Freed Land" (August 13, 1864)

"Olustee" (December 17, 1864)

"Going Home to Edisto" (March 18, 1865)