The Thomasite - 9781949935622

?In 1901, a young American teacher, Eleanor Karsten, sails on the U. S. Army Transport Thomas with more than 500 other U.S. educators in response to Pres. McKinley's call to teach and help establish a public school system in the new U.S. territory, the Philippine Islands. Various challenges, including malaria, a cholera epidemic, war, and racial andreligious prejudice test her resolve to fulfill her mission.Her loyalties are further tested when she falls in love with a native man, Diego Santiago, whom she suspects to be the leader of the local insurrection. Her journey takes her through love and loss of mythic proportions, awakening her to the ramifications of America's expansionist policy of "benevolent assimilation," where she finds herself the student rather than the teacher.

• | Author: Victoria A Grageda-Smith, Victoria Victoria Grageda-Smith
• | Publisher: Orange Blossom Publishing
• | Publication Date: May 30, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 462 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1949935620
• | ISBN-13: 9781949935622