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William Francis Allen was born on September 5, 1830 at Northboro, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Joseph Allen, Unitarian clergyman, and Lucy Clarke Ware of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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New Englander William Allen (1830-1889) is mostly known today as the lead editor of the 1867 anthology Slave Songs of the United States, the earliest published collection of Negro spirituals, and as a distinguished history professor at the University of Wisconsin. During the Civil War, he served from late 1863 through mid-1864 as a member of the "Gideonite band" of businessmen, missionaries, and teachers who migrated to the South Carolina Sea Islands as part of the Port Royal Experiment. After the war, he served as assistant superintendent of schools in Charleston from April through July 1865. Allen kept journals during his assignments in South Carolina in which he recorded events and impressions of about several hundred people, especially ex-slaves, along with fellow Gideonites, Union soldiers and officials, and ex-Confederates. In A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina, editor James Robert Hester has transcribed Allen's journals and fully annotated them to create a significant documentary source of information on Civil War South Carolina. Hester notes that Allen's journals are more than travelogues, as he often analyzed the people, events, and ideas he encountered. In addition to being a competent amateur musician, Allen was a Harvard-trained historian and philologist and brought his impressive skills to his writing. Later in his life he became an eminent professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. Hester's introductory chapter summarizes Allen's life from his early childhood in Northborough, Massachusetts, through his education at Harvard, his duties as associate principal of the West Newton (Massachusetts) English and Classical School, and his engagement in the Port Royal Experiment. The introduction also surveys Allen's essays on the South published in the Christian Examiner during the Civil War and his articles written for The Nation at the war's end. Two chapters cover Allen's St. Helena and Charleston journals, respectively, and the book closes with a short epilogue. The work is generously annotated, containing almost 600 endnotes, which amplify Allen's narrative and complement Allen's vivid glimpses of coastal South Carolina during the Civil War.
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William Francis Allen was born on September 5, 1830 at Northboro, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Joseph Allen, Unitarian clergyman, and Lucy Clarke Ware of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Allen was prepared for college in a school kept by his parents in the Northboro parsonage, with one year at the Roxbury Latin School, and was graduated from Harvard College in 1851. In 1854, he went to Europe, where he studied one semester at Göttingen and one in Berlin, after which he went to Italy, arriving in Rome in November 1855. Here he spent three months mainly in studying the topography of the ancient city, then went to Naples and to Greece. He returned to Boston in June 1856.
In 1851-1853 Allen was a tutor in a private family in New York. From 1856 to 1863 he was associate principal of the English and Classical School at West Newton, Massachusetts.
In November 1863, accompanied by his wife, he went, in the employ of the Freedmen's Aid Commission, to begin the education of the freedmen at St. Helena Island, South Carolina. He came north in July 1864, and in September went as agent of the Sanitary Commission to Helena, Arkansas, where he remained until February 1865.
After a service of some months as assistant superintendent of the schools of Charleston, South Carolina, Allen went as professor of ancient languages to Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, but remained there only one year, after which he taught for a year in a military academy at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. In 1867 he was called to the chair of ancient languages and history in the University of Wisconsin, and here he remained until his death.
His books are the following: Slave Songs of the United States, compiled in conjunction with Charles P. Ware and Lucy M. Garrison (1867); A Latin Reader, with his brother J. H. Allen (1869); and other. A Short History of the Roman People (1890) was his most important single work and his only book dealing entirely with his special subject. His further writings comprise more than 900 articles and reviews on classical, historical, political, and various other subjects.
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Allen was a member of the Unitarian church.
On July 2, 1862, Allen married Mary Tileston Lambert. She died on March 23, 1865, leaving an infant daughter, Katherine. On June 30, 1868, he married Margaret Loring Andrews, of Newburyport, Massachussets, who bore him three sons.