Download or read book Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev Charles Thompson written by Rev. Charles Thompson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was a slave, and was born in Atala County, Mississippi, near the town of Rockford, on the third day of March, 1833. My father and mother both being slaves, of course my pedigree is not traceable, by me, farther back than my parents. Our family belonged to a man named Kirkwood, who was a large slave-owner. Kirkwood died when I was about nine years old, after which, upon the settlement of the affairs of his estate, the slaves belonging to the estate were divided equally, as to value, among the six heirs. There were about seventy-five slaves to be divided into six lots; and great was the tribulation among the poor blacks when they learned that they were to be separated. When the division was completed two of my sisters and myself were cast into one lot, my mother into another, and my father into another, and the rest of the family in the other lots. Young and slave as I was, I felt the pang of separation from my loved and revered mother; child that I was I mourned for mother, even before our final separation, as one dead to me forever. So early to be deprived of a fond mother, by the "law," gave me my first view of the curse of slavery. Until this time I did not know what trouble was, but from then until the tocsin of freedom was sounded through the glorious Emancipation Proclamation by the immortal Abraham Lincoln, I passed through hardship after hardship, in quick succession, and many, many times I have almost seen and tasted death. I bade farewell to my mother, forever, on this earth. Oh! the pangs of that moment. Even after thirty years have elapsed the scene comes vividly to my memory as I write. A gloomy, dark cloud seemed to pass before my vision, and the very air seemed to still with awfulness. I felt bereaved, forlorn, forsaken, lost. Put yourself in my place; feel what I have felt, and then say, God is just; he will protect the helpless and right the wronged, and you will have some idea of my feelings and the hope that sustained me through long and weary years of servitude. My mother, my poor mother! what must she have suffered. Never will I forget her last words; never will I forget the earnest prayers of that mother begging for her child, and refusing to be comforted. She had fallen to the lot of Mrs. Anderson, and she pleaded with burning tears streaming down her cheeks, "He is my only son, my baby child, my youngest and the only son I have; please let me have him to go with me!"
Download or read book Faith and Fury written by Fr. Charles Connor and published by EWTN Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bloody Civil War that split our nation, American bishops worked for the success of the Union . . . and of the Confederacy! As Catholics slaughtered Catholics, pious priests on both sides prayed God to give success in battle. . . to their own side. Men in blue and men in gray flinched at the Consecration as cannonballs (fired by Catholic opponents) rained down on them during battlefield Masses. Many are the moving – and often surprising – stories in these pages of brave Catholics on both sides of the conflict – stories told by Fr. Charles Connor, one of our country's foremost experts on Catholic American history. Through searing anecdotes and learned analysis, Fr. Connor here shows how the tumult, tragedy, and bravery of the War forged a new American identity, even as it created a new American Catholic identity, as Catholics—often new immigrants—found themselves on both sides of the conflict. Fr. Connor
Download or read book The Life of the Rev Charles Wesley written by Thomas Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Autobiography of the Rev Charles Freshman Late Rabbi of the Jewish Synagogue at Quebec and Graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary at Prague at Present German Wesleyan Minister at Preston Ontario written by Charles Freshman and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir of Rev Charles T Torrey who Died in the Penitentiary of Maryland written by Joseph Cammet Lovejoy and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Autobiography of the Rev Charles Freshman Etc written by Charles Freshman and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey written by E. Fuller Torrey and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his brief yet remarkable career, abolitionist Charles Torrey -- called the "father of the Underground Railroad" by his peers -- assisted almost four hundred slaves in gaining their freedom. A Yale graduate and an ordained minister, Torrey set up a well-organized route for escaped slaves traveling from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia and Albany. Arrested in Baltimore in 1844 for his activities, Torrey spent two years in prison before he succumbed to tuberculosis. By then, other abolitionists widely recognized and celebrated Torrey's exploits: running wagonloads of slaves northward in the night, dodging slave catchers and sheriffs, and involving members of Congress in his schemes. Nonetheless, the historiography of abolitionism has largely overlooked Torrey's fascinating and compelling story. The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey presents the first comprehensive biography of one of America's most dedicated abolitionists. According to author E. Fuller Torrey, a distant relative, Charles Torrey pushed the abolitionist movement to become more political and active. He helped advance the faction that challenged the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison, provoking an irreversible schism in the movement and making Torrey and Garrison bitter enemies. Torrey played an important role in the formation of the Liberty Party and in the emergence of political abolitionism. Not satisfied with the slow pace of change, he also pioneered aggressive abolitionism by personally freeing slaves, likely liberating more than any other person. In doing so, he inspired many others, including John Brown, who cited Torrey as one of his role models. E. Fuller Torrey's study not only fills a substantial gap in the history of abolitionism but restores Charles Torrey to his rightful place as one of the most dedicated and significant abolitionists in American history.
Download or read book Report of the American Home Missionary Society written by American Home Missionary Society and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of the Rev Charles Wesley M A Some Time Student of Christ Church Oxford written by Thomas Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Darwin in Australia written by F. W. Nicholas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon Darwin's diary, this lavishly illustrated book traces Darwin's travels in Australia in 1836.
Download or read book Examen censurae or an Answer to certain strictures of Charles Gataker on a book entitled Harmonia Apostolica To which is added an Apology for the Harmony and its author in answer to the declamation of T Tully in a book entitled Justificatio Paulina etc written by George BULL (Bishop of Saint David's.) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memoirs of Rev Charles G Finney written by Charles Finney and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Roussettiana or a Catalogue of the library of Right Reverend Charles Des Alris de Rousset Likewise the libraries of the Reverend Mr Johnson and of an eminent lawyer lately deceas d Which will begin to be sold on Tuesday the eighteenth of March at Thomas Osborne s shop in Gray s Inn etc written by Charles DES ALRIS DE ROUSSET (Bishop of Béziers.) and published by . This book was released on 1740 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of the Rev Charles Simeon written by Charles Simeon and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book S Athanasius treatises against Arianism written by Saint Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
