This 24,000 word autobiography offers a rare perspective on life during the most transformative years of US history. Houston Hartsfield Holloway (1844-1917) was born enslaved in upcountry Georgia, taught himself to read and write, learned the blacksmith trade, was emancipated by Union victory in 1865, and served as an ordained traveling preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1870 to 1883.
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Höhe: 231 mm
Breite: 160 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
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978-0-88146-545-7 (9780881465457)
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Public historian David E. Patersonstudies Upson County, Georgia, especially the local history of slavery and Reconstruction. A civilian employee of the US Navy by day, he spends his leisure hours researching and writing history, and managing the Slave Research Forum at AfriGeneas.com. Paterson lives in Norfolk, Virginia.
