ISBN: 9781496835185

Owned by his father, Isaac Harold Anderson (1835–1906) was born a slave but went on to become a wealthy businessman, grocer, politician, publisher, and religious leader in the African Ame… Mehr…

Owned by his father, Isaac Harold Anderson (1835–1906) was born a slave but went on to become a wealthy businessman, grocer, politician, publisher, and religious leader in the African American community in the state of Georgia. Elected to the state senate, Anderson replaced his white father there, and later shepherded his people as a founding member and leader of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church. He helped support the establishment of Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee, where he subsequently served as vice president. Anderson was instrumental in helping freed people leave Georgia for the security of progressive safe havens with significantly large Black communities in northern Mississippi and Arkansas. Eventually under threat to his life, Anderson made his own exodus to Arkansas, and then later still, to Holly Springs, Mississippi, where a vibrant Black community thrived. Much of Anderson's unique story has been lost to history—until now. In The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson, author Alicia K. Jackson presents a biography of Anderson and in it a microhistory of Black religious life and politics after emancipation. A work of recovery, the volume captures the life of a shepherd to his journeying people, and of a college pioneer, a CME minister, a politician, and a former slave. Gathering together threads from salvaged details of his life, Jackson sheds light on the varied perspectives and strategies adopted by Black leaders dealing with a society that was antithetical to them and to their success. University Press of Mississippi Social Science Biographies Amos T. Akerman; Antebellum South; apprenticeship System; Arkansas; Bishop George Pierce; Bishop Henry McNeil Turner; Bishop Lucius Holsey; Black Church; Colored Methodist Episopal Church; convict leasing; economic; Georgia; Georgia Militia; Holly Springs; John B. Gordon; Ku Klux Klan; labor; Lane College; Marshall County Mississippi; memory; Mississippi Delta; Paine College; paternalism; Sardis, Panola County Mississippi; slave trading; Trauma Theory; Tunis Campbell Sr. 9781496835130 DE,GB,ES,IT,FR,MX English Social Sciences, University Press of Mississippi<

ISBN: 9781496835185

University Press of Mississippi Social Science Biographies Amos T. Akerman; Antebellum South; apprenticeship System; Arkansas; Bishop George Pierce; Bishop Henry McNeil Turner; Bishop Luc… Mehr…

University Press of Mississippi Social Science Biographies Amos T. Akerman; Antebellum South; apprenticeship System; Arkansas; Bishop George Pierce; Bishop Henry McNeil Turner; Bishop Lucius Holsey; Black Church; Colored Methodist Episopal Church; convict leasing; economic; Georgia; Georgia Militia; Holly Springs; John B. Gordon; Ku Klux Klan; labor; Lane College; Marshall County Mississippi; memory; Mississippi Delta; Paine College; paternalism; Sardis, Panola County Mississippi; slave trading; Trauma Theory; Tunis Campbell Sr. ,9781496835147 UK,GB,DE,ES,FR,IT,US,CA,MX,AU,NZ 20211115 English Social Sciences, University Press of Mississippi<

2021, ISBN: 9781496835185

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