From Slavery To Salvation The Autobiography Of Rev Thomas W Henry Of The A M E Church

Author : Jean Libby,Thomas W. Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Maryland
ISBN : 0977363805

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From Slavery to Salvation: the Autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry of the A.M.E. Church by Jean Libby,Thomas W. Henry Pdf

A primary source account of slavery and the formation of the independent African American Episcopal Church in rural western Maryland, the original 1872 was recovered at the Howard University Spingarn Library by Jean Libby in 1977. The social history of Henry's life in slavery and freedom includes a letter from John Brown in 1859 as a "trusty man." He narrowly escaped arrest and fled north . Libby transcribed the narrative from nearly illegible type and documented and illustrated the events over a period of years that included specific university study at the University of California (B.A. 1986) and San Francisco State University (1991). First published by the University Press of Mississippi with a foreword by Edward C. Papenfuse, Maryland State Archivist, copyright assigned to Jean Libby. The reprint edition is scanned from the original and formatted with its original paging, printed and spiral bound in letter-size sheets. An 1830s original drawing of the Antietam Iron Works is contributed to the 2020 reprint edition by the current owners Wayne and Gayle McCrossin of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The National Archives and Records Administration recently published a notice from the African American press of a search by Rev. Thomas Henry for his son Rousbey, or Asberry, sold from Hagerstown in 1838. Original maps and site visits by documentary author Jean Libby make this publication valuable, according to reviews by Library Journal and Cambridge University.

Author : Thomas W. Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1872*
Category : African American clergy
ISBN : OCLC:785737612

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Autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry, of the A.M.E. Church by Thomas W. Henry Pdf

Author : Thomas W. Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1409985997

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Autobiography of REV. Thomas W. Henry, of the A. M. E. Church (Dodo Press) by Thomas W. Henry Pdf

Reverend Thomas W. Henry (1794-1877) was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Born into slavery in Leonardtown, Maryland he was freed after the death of his owner. His autobiography, Autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry, of the A. M. E. Church, was published in 1872.

Author : Peggy A. Russo,Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : 9780821416303

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Terrible Swift Sword by Peggy A. Russo,Paul Finkelman Pdf

More than two centuries after his birth and almost a century and a half after his death, the legendary life and legacy of John Brown go marching on. Variously deemed martyr, madman, monster, terrorist, and saint, he remains one of the most controversial figures in America's history. Brown's actions in Kansas and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, provided major catalysts for the American Civil War, actions that continue today to evoke commendation or provoke condemnation. Through the prisms of history, literature, psychology, criminal justice, oral history, African American studies, political science, film studies, and anthropology, Terrible Swift Sword offers insights not only into John Brown's controversial character and motives, but also into the nature of a troubled society before, during, and after the Civil War. The discussions include reasons why Brown's contemporaries supported him, attempts to define Brown using different criteria, analyses of Brown's behavior, his depiction in literature, and examinations of the iconography surrounding him.The interdisciplinary focus marshalled by editor Peggy A. Russo makes Terrible Swift Sword unique, and this, together with the popular mythology surrounding the legend of John Brown, will appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in this turbulent moment in American history.Paul Finkelman is Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law. He is the author of many articles and books, including His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid and the Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference Peggy Russo is an assistant professor of English at the Mont Alto Campus of Pennsylvania State University. She has published in Shakespeare Bulletin, The Southern Literary Journal, Journal of American Culture, Shakespeare and the Classroom, and Civil War Book Review.

Author : Peter H. Michael
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781434380371

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Guide to Freedom by Peter H. Michael Pdf

This book should be of interest to any reader who has ever stopped to ponder what children usually ask their elders: Why are we here? In the context of history and myth, several aspects of Western and Eastern civilizations such as the ideas about the existence of an afterlife, evolution, creationism, God and lately inflationary cosmology have constantly been a subject of thought in many peoples' minds. The advances of modern science have provoked a clash between the beliefs in the existence of immaterial beings and the findings of historical people. This has resulted in a challenge to various myths and religious concepts that eventually have been neither entirely adopted nor implemented all over the world. This book is not intended to be a polemic about the existence of God. It is rather an account of how the IDEA of GOD originated and evolved in the mind of the most influential thinkers of all time. The advances of modern science in the West have giving rise to variable ideas about the origins of the universe and the possibility of a final end, which have permeated our society. This contrasts sharply with the thought of Eastern civilizations. This book is a reflection of the different opinions and beliefs about the idea of God as conceived by the minds of individuals in the past and present and by those that now continue to be concerned about the role of evolution and creation after more than five millennia of controversial discussion. The contributions of prominent figures, both ancient and modern, are exposed here with brevity and clarity.

Author : Milton C. Sernett
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0822324490

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African American Religious History by Milton C. Sernett Pdf

This is a 2nd edition of the 1985 anthology that examines the religious history of African Americans.

Author : Elizabeth Elkin Grammer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195139617

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Some Wild Visions by Elizabeth Elkin Grammer Pdf

A study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of 19th-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct plausible identities as women and Christians.

Author : Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576075128

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African American Religious Cultures [2 volumes] by Anthony B. Pinn Pdf

This encyclopedia offers the most comprehensive presentation available on the diversity and richness of religious practices among African Americans, from traditions predating the era of the transatlantic slave trade to contemporary religious movements. Like no previous reference, African American Religious Cultures captures the full scope of African American religious identity, tracing the long history of African American engagement with spiritual practice while exploring the origins and complexities of current religious traditions. This breakthrough encyclopedia offers alphabetically organized entries on every major spiritual belief system as it has evolved among African American communities, covering its beginnings, development, major doctrinal points, rituals, important figures, and defining moments. In addition, the work illustrates how the social and economic realities of life for African Americans have shaped beliefs across the spectrum of religious cultures.

Author : William J. Switala
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811749602

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Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia by William J. Switala Pdf

Detailed maps trace the routes runaway slaves followed. Explores the impact of geography, transportation, free blacks, and members of religious congregations on the Underground Railroad. Information on modern roads and landmarks allows readers to retrace escape paths.

Author : Stewart Lillard
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781483465814

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Lost in the District, Lost in the Federal Territory: The Life and Times of Doctor David Ross, Surgeon, Sot-Weed Factor, Importer of Human Labor, of Bladensburg, Maryland, and related individuals by Stewart Lillard Pdf

"Lost in the District, Lost in the Federal Territory" relates the facts about Doctor David Ross of Bladensburg, his family life, his business and political connections, and his efforts to develop a productive iron mine along the upper Potomac River on lower Antietam Creek in Washington County, Maryland. Through his diligence and the skills of his close relatives, Dr. Ross was in a position to recommend the taking up of arms against Great Britain to his river neighbors of the Committee of Correspondence. His son was later appointed to serve briefly as one of the first auditors for the newly formed District of Columbia. His nephew by marriage, James Maccubbin Lingan, a victim of the Baltimore Riot of July 28, 1812, was one of the first group of leaders who set Georgetown, Maryland (and later D.C.), on its course to greatness as a deep water port. He remains the only veteran of the American Revolutionary War to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Author : Max Grivno
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252093562

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Gleanings of Freedom by Max Grivno Pdf

Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites, slaves, and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat-producing region along the Mason–Dixon Line. Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, Max Grivno reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.

Author : Kay Wright Lewis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820351261

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A Curse upon the Nation by Kay Wright Lewis Pdf

From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later help fuel the Civil War, thwart the aims of Reconstruction, justify Jim Crow, and even inform civil rights movement strategy. And yet, says Lewis, the historiography of slavery is all but silent on extermination as a category of analysis. Moreover, little of the existing sparse scholarship interrogates the black perspective on extermination. A Curse upon the Nation addresses both of these issues. To explain how this belief in an impending race war shaped eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American politics, culture, and commerce, Lewis examines a wide range of texts including letters, newspapers, pamphlets, travel accounts, slave narratives, government documents, and abolitionist tracts. She foregrounds her readings in the long record of exterminatory warfare in Europe and its colonies, placing lopsided reprisals against African slave revolts—or even rumors of revolts—in a continuum with past brutal incursions against the Irish, Scots, Native Americans, and other groups out of favor with the empire. Lewis also shows how extermination became entwined with ideas about race and freedom from early in the process of enslavement, making survival an important form of resistance for African peoples in America. For African Americans, enslaved and free, the potential for one-sided violence was always present and deeply traumatic. This groundbreaking study reevaluates how extermination shaped black understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and the political, social, and economic worlds in which it thrived.

Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810878112

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Historical Dictionary of the Civil War by Terry L. Jones Pdf

The Civil War was the most traumatic event in American history, pitting Americans against one another, rending the national fabric, leaving death and devastation in its wake, and instilling an anger that has not entirely dissipated even to this day, 150 years later. This updated and expanded two-volume second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Civil War relates the history of this war through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on persons, places, events, institutions, battles, and campaigns. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Civil War.

Author : Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252095894

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Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad by Cheryl Janifer LaRoche Pdf

This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, Cheryl LaRoche focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred. This study foregrounds several small, rural hamlets on the treacherous southern edge of the free North in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. LaRoche demonstrates how landscape features such as waterways, iron forges, and caves played a key role in the conduct and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad. Rich in oral histories, maps, memoirs, and archaeological investigations, this examination of the "geography of resistance" tells the new powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation in the midst of oppression.

Author : Peter W. Williams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252075513

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America's Religions by Peter W. Williams Pdf

A panoramic introduction to religion in America, newly revised and updated