What Love Can Do Recollected Stories of Slavery and Freedom in New Orleans and the Surrounding Area

Name: What Love Can Do Recollected Stories of Slavery and Freedom in New Orleans and the Surrounding Area
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ISBN: 9781452546247

ISBN-10: 145254624X

ISBN-13: 9781452546247

Edition: 2011

Authors: Arthur Mitchell

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Henry Goody Johns was the eldest son of a beautiful young slave girl from East Central Africa and her Louisiana Master. Given the choice by his father to pass for white or to remain a slave, Johns chose to forever identify with his black mother and siblings, later becoming a pastor to his community after the Emancipation Proclamation. This volume of stories about Henry Goody Johns, who taught his people What Love Can Do is oral history at its best. It has been passed down from a generation of an enslaved people who came to learn that prejudice and hatred is a greater form of slavery than bondage itself. This memoir as written by Arthur Mitchell, a descendent of slaves on the Jons…

Book details

List price: $11.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Balboa Press
Publication date: 2/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 118
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.110
Language: English