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Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A.M.
Author: Life of Rev. A. Crooks
Author: E. W. CrooksPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385244935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Life of Rev. A. Crooks
Author: E W CrooksPublisher:
ISBN: 9780359738472
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Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Reverend Adam Crooks was an activist and minister whose tireless campaigns against slavery in the 19th century led to his being one of Methodist church's most famous abolitionists. Born at a time when slavery in America was scarcely questioned by the religious establishment, Reverend Crooks? felt a personal revulsion toward enslavement, and especially its continuation by individuals purporting to be true Christians. Despite the dangers of preaching the abolitionist cause in the southern states where slavery was legal, he did so tirelessly and for many years ? encouraging congregations and other Christian ministers to join his cause. After facing off against trumped up charges in court, Rev. Crooks? devotion to abolitionism became famous. Living to see the harrowing destruction of the U.S. Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation which followed, Adam Crooks diverted his spirit to a new cause: that of temperance. Until his death in 1874, Crooks was also one of the fiercest proponents against alcohol.
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A.M.
Author: Life of Rev. A. Crooks: A Wesleyan Methodist Minister who Campaigned for Temperance and the Abolition of Slavery (Hardcover)
Author: E. W. CrooksPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780359738465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Reverend Adam Crooks was an activist and minister whose tireless campaigns against slavery in the 19th century led to his being one of Methodist church's most famous abolitionists. Born at a time when slavery in America was scarcely questioned by the religious establishment, Reverend Crooks? felt a personal revulsion toward enslavement, and especially its continuation by individuals purporting to be true Christians. Despite the dangers of preaching the abolitionist cause in the southern states where slavery was legal, he did so tirelessly and for many years ? encouraging congregations and other Christian ministers to join his cause. After facing off against trumped up charges in court, Rev. Crooks? devotion to abolitionism became famous. Living to see the harrowing destruction of the U.S. Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation which followed, Adam Crooks diverted his spirit to a new cause: that of temperance. Until his death in 1874, Crooks was also one of the fiercest proponents against alcohol.
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A.M., Written and Compiled by His Wife
Author: E. W. CrooksLife of Rev. A Crooks, A. M
Author: Mrs. E. W. CrooksPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483113077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Excerpt from Life of Rev. A Crooks, A. M: Written and Compiled by His Wife This memoir has been prepared, for the most part, by her whose journey for nearly twenty-two years has been at his side. That her deepest interest has entwined around the objects of his toils and fortunes, it is eminently fitting that to these pages should be given that careful and truth ful expression of the facts of history, which her intimacy with him will warrant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Journey to Freedom
Author: Gail Shaffer BlankenauPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623152X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"Journey to Freedom provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of two enslaved Black women-Celia and Eliza Grayson-from Nebraska City in 1858 to debate whether slavery could exist in the West, and whether popular sovereignty truly worked"--
An Indispensable Liberty
Author: Mary M. CroninPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809334720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
"This collection of eleven essays examines nineteenth-century legal and extralegal attempts to restrict freedom of speech and the press as well as the efforts of others to push back against those restrictions"--
A Literate South
Author: Beth Barton SchweigerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245394
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South’s oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible—which has its origins in the eighteenth century—has obscured the rich literate tradition at the heart of Southern and American culture.