Download or read book Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev Charles Thompson a Preacher of the United Brethren Church While a Slave in the South Together with Startling Occurrences Incidental to Slave Life written by Charles Thompson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev Charles Thompson a Preacher of the United Brethren Church While a Slave in the South Together written by Reverend Charles Thompson and published by Flying Chipmunk Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Thompson was born in Atala County, Mississippi, near the town of Rockford, on March 3, 1833. The son of slaves, he spent most of his life as a slave. This book covers the first half of Thompson's life, when all he knew was slavery, and the hope for freedom and the right to determine his own fate was a bitter dream. He intended to write another volume covering his life as a minister and the coming of the Civil War but this was never published. * * * * Reverend Charles Thompson provides a first-hand account of life during slavery in Mississippi and how he helped grow an informal community of Christian worshipers among the slaves on his master's plantation and neighboring estates. His account uses a conversational style that Thompson describes as "being much better suited to the tastes and capacities of my colored readers." And he is frank with the terrible state of affairs that the slaves contended with on a daily basis, from jealous overseers who abused their authority, to cruel masters who vented their rage on their possessions, much as a spoiled child will break a toy when angered. * * * * Thompson's "church" was able to rise and flourish because it was supported and overseen by his master and mistress, and he recalls the growth of the congregation and the building of an official place of worship, in spite of the terrible conditions of slavery. * * * * Check our other Children's, Juvenile, and Adult books at www.FlyingChipmunkPublishing.com, or Like us on Facebook for our latest releases.
Download or read book Biography of a Slave written by Rev. Charles Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of a Slave: Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a Preacher of the United Brethren Church, While a Slave in the South. Together with Startling Occurrences Incidental to Slave Life
Download or read book Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev Charles Thompson a Preacher of the United Brethren Church While a Slave in the South written by Charles Thompson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Thompson wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age.
Download or read book Biography of a Slave written by Charles Thompson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-16 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Thompson, born in Atala County, Mississippi-Division of Kirkwood's Slaves Among his Six Children-The Writer and his Two Sisters Fall to Mrs. Wilson-The Parting Between Mother and Child-Deprived of a Fond Mother Forever-Old Uncle Jack-Wilson Buys Uncle Ben from Strucker-Uncle Ben Runs Away and is Hunted with Blood-Hounds-Two Hundred Dollars Reward. 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.
Download or read book Biography of a Slave written by Charles Thompson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of REV Charles Thompson a Preacher of the United Brethren Church While a Slave in the South Together with Startling Occurrences Incidental to Slave Life written by Thompson Charles and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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!"
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Download or read book Biography of A Slave written by Charles Thompson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BIOGRAPHY OF A SLAVE: BEING THE EXPERIENCES OF REV. CHARLES THOMPSON, A PREACHER
Download or read book Biography of a Slave written by Charles Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 68 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. "
Download or read book Biography of a Slave written by By Rev. Charles Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of an African-American slave "owned" by a pre-bellum plantation owner, forced (sometimes with a whip) to labor in the homes and fields of the Old South. The sometimes horrific experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a post-war preacher of The United Brethren Church, are recorded with fascinating detail and unflinching truth. A must read for anyone who believes in equal rights and the equality of all races. Edited and prepared for publication by Richard Lee Fulgham, author of the Civil War "cult classic" Hogs: The War Saga of Pvt. Johnny Hess, CSA. Available at Amazon, other literary outlets and as a Kindle Book. AKA The Hogs of Cold Harbor (2005, Whitmore, PA).
Download or read book Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev Charles Thompson a Preacher of the United Brethren Church While a Slave in the South Together with Startling Occurrences Incidental to Slave Life written by Charles Thompson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Afrofuturism in Black Panther written by Karen A. Ritzenhoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-making of Blackness, through an interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of Black Panther, discusses the importance of superheroes and the ways in which they are especially important to Black fans. Aside from its global box office success, Black Panther paves the way for future superhero narratives due to its underlying philosophy to base the story on a narrative that is reliant on Afro-futurism. The film’s storyline, the book posits, leads viewers to think about relevant real-world social questions as it taps into the cultural zeitgeist in an indelible way. Contributors to this collection approach Black Panther not only as a film, but also as Afrofuturist imaginings of an African nation untouched by colonialism and antiblack racism: the film is a map to alternate states of being, an introduction to the African Diaspora, a treatise on liberation and racial justice, and an examination of identity. As they analyze each of these components, contributors pose the question: how can a film invite a reimagining of Blackness?
Download or read book A Will to Choose written by J. Gordon Melton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist movement in the 1760s. Responding to Methodism's anti-slavery stance, African-Americans joined the new movement in large numbers and by the end of the eighteenth century, had made up the largest minority in the Methodist church, filling positions of authority as class leaders, exhorters, and preachers. Through the first half of the nineteenth century, African Americans used the resources of the church in their struggle for liberation from slavery and racism in the secular culture. --From publisher description.
Download or read book The Moral Economies of American Authorship written by Susan M. Ryan (Ph. D.) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary property within mid-nineteenth-century America's expanding print marketplace, shaping the construction, promotion, and reception of texts as well as of literary reputations. Using a wide range of printed materials--prefaces, dedications, and other paratexts as well as book reviews, advertisements, and editorials that appeared in the era's magazines and newspapers--The Moral Economies of American Authorship recovers and analyzes the circulation of authors' moral currency, attending not only to the marketing of apparently ironclad status but also to the period's not-infrequent author scandals and ensuing attempts at recuperation. These preoccupations prove to be more than a historical curiosity-they prefigure the complex (if often disavowed) interdependence of authorial character and literary value in contemporary scholarship and pedagogy. Combining broad investigations into the marketing and reception of books with case studies that analyze the construction and repair of particular authors' reputations (e.g., James Fenimore Cooper, Mary Prince, Elizabeth Keckley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and E.D.E.N. Southworth), the book constructs a genealogy of the field's investments in and uses of authorial character. In the nineteenth century's deployment of moral character as a signal element in the marketing, reception, and canonization of books and authors, we see how biography both vexed and created literary status, adumbrating our own preoccupations while demonstrating how malleable-and how recuperable-moral authority could be.
Download or read book Preaching with Sacred Fire An Anthology of African American Sermons 1750 to the Present written by Martha Simmons and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred sermons that display the victorious, although sometimes painful, historical and spiritual pilgrimage of black people in America. A groundbreaking anthology, Preaching with Sacred Fire is a unique and powerful work. It captures the stunning diversity of the cultural and historical legacy of African American preaching more than three hundred years in the making. Each sermon, as editors Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas reveal, is a work of art and a lesson in unmatched rhetoric. The journey through this anthology—which includes selections from Jarena Lee, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Gardner C. Taylor, Vashti McKenzie, and many others—offers a rare view of the unheralded role of the African American preacher in American history. The collection provides new insights into the underpinnings of the black fight for emancipation and the rise and growth of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Sermons from the first decade of the twenty-first century point toward the future of African American preaching. Biographies of the preachers put their work in the cultural and homiletic context of their periods. The preachers of these sermons are men and women from a range of faiths, ancestries, and educational backgrounds. They draw on a vast and luminous landscape of poetic language, using metaphor, rhythm, and imagery to communicate with their congregations. What they all have in common is hope, resilience, and sacred fire. “Even during the most difficult and oppressive times,” Simmons and Thomas write in the preface, “the delivery, creativity, charisma, expressivity, fervor, forcefulness, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, and vision of black preaching gave and gives hope to a community under siege.” This magnificent work beautifully renders the complexity, spiritual richness, and strength of African American life.
