All 5 Uses of
benevolent
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- The government and benevolent societies furnished the means of cultivation, and the Negro turned again slowly to work.†
Chpt 2benevolent = kind, generous, or charitable
- The Bureau invited continued cooperation with benevolent societies, and declared: "It will be the object of all commissioners to introduce practicable systems of compensated labor," and to establish schools.†
Chpt 2 *
- It not only called the school-mistresses through the benevolent agencies and built them schoolhouses, but it helped discover and support such apostles of human culture as Edmund Ware, Samuel Armstrong, and Erastus Cravath.†
Chpt 2
- Such was the dawn of Freedom; such was the work of the Freedmen's Bureau, which, summed up in brief, may be epitomized thus: for some fifteen million dollars, beside the sums spent before 1865, and the dole of benevolent societies, this Bureau set going a system of free labor, established a beginning of peasant proprietorship, secured the recognition of black freedmen before courts of law, and founded the free common school in the South.†
Chpt 2
- Finally, there are the varying forms of religious enterprise, of moral teaching and benevolent endeavor.†
Chpt 9