The recovered life of Isaac Anderson / Alicia K. Jackson.
| Author/creator |
Jackson, Alicia K. author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021] |
| Copyright Notice | ©2021 |
| Description | xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Introduction: The recovered life of Isaac Anderson -- 1868 -- William Jackson Anderson -- Isaac Anderson -- Georgia -- 1870 -- Exodus -- Promised land -- The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church -- Epilogue: The forgetting. |
| Abstract | "Owned by his father, Isaac Harold Anderson (1835-1906) was born enslaved 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, and helped freed people leave Georgia for safe havens in northern Mississippi and Arkansas. Eventually under threat to his life, Anderson fled to Arkansas, and then later still, to Holly Springs, Mississippi. 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 freed person"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Jackson, Alicia K. Recovered life of isaac anderson Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021 9781496835161 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2021026158 |
| ISBN | 9781496835147 hardcover |
| ISBN | 149683514X hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781496835130 trade paperback |
| ISBN | 1496835131 trade paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Joyner | Ronnie Barnes African American Collection | BX8473.A53 J33 2021 | Featured Display - First Floor Reading Lounge | Want This? |