Author: Lewis HaydenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Caste among Masons: Address before Prince Hall Grand Lodge of free and accepted Masons of the State of Massachusetts, at the Festival of St. John the Evangelist, December 27, 1865
Author: Lewis HaydenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The History of Freemasonry
Author: Robert Freke GouldThe History of Freemasonry
Author: GouldDelia Webster and the Underground Railroad
Author: Randolph Paul RunyonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In this captivating tale, Randolph Paul Runyon follows the trail of the first woman imprisoned for assisting runaway slaves and explores the mystery surrounding her life and work. In September 1844, Delia Webster took a break from her teaching responsibilities at Lexington Female Academy and accompanied Calvin Fairbank, a Methodist preacher from Oberlin College, on a Saturdary drive in the country. At the end of their trip, their passengers—Lewis Hayden and his family—remained in southern Ohio, ticketed for the Underground Railroad. Webster and Fairbank returned to a near riot and jail cells. Webster earned a sentence to the state penitentiary in Frankfort, where the warden, Newton Craig, married and a father, became enamored of her and was tempted into a compromising relationship he would come to regret. Hayden reached freedom in Boston, where he became a prominent businessman, the ringleader in the courthouse rescue of a fugitive slave, and the last link in the chain of events that led to the Harpers Ferry Raid. Webster, the focal point at which these lives intersect, remains an enigma. Was she, as one contemporary noted, "A young lady of irreproachable character?" Or, as another observed, "a very bold and defiant kind of woman, without a spark of feminine modesty, and, withal, very shrewd and cunning?" Runyon has doggedly pursued every historical lead to bring color and shape to the tale of these fascinating characters.
The Freemason's Chronicle
Author: The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated. A Weekly Record of Progress in Freemasonry
Author: More Than Freedom
Author: Stephen KantrowitzPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143123440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A major new account of the Northern movement to establish African Americans as full citizens before, during, and after the Civil War In More Than Freedom, award-winning historian Stephen Kantrowitz offers a bold rethinking of the Civil War era. Kantrowitz show how the fight to abolish slavery was always part of a much broader campaign by African Americans to claim full citizenship and to remake the white republic into a place where they could belong. More Than Freedom chronicles this epic struggle through the lives of black and white abolitionists in and around Boston, including Frederick Douglass, Senator Charles Sumner, and lesser known but equally important figures. Their bold actions helped bring about the Civil War, set the stage for Reconstruction, and left the nation forever altered.
Proceedings of the Grand Holy Royal Arch Chapter of Pennsylvania and Masonic Jurisdiction Thereunto Belonging, for the Year Ending ...
Author: Freemasons. PENNSYLVANIA. GRAND HOLY ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
A Candid Statement of the Course Pursued by the Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in Trying to Establish Their New Organization in Missouri
Author: Lorenzo WaughReconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality (LOA #303)
Author: Brooks D. SimpsonPublisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598535633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
The aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing from the Reconstruction era—featuring pieces by Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, and more “Very, very good. . . . Reconstruction conveys the struggle for racial equality better than many other anthologies documenting the era.” —The Wall Street Journal Few periods in American history are more consequential but less understood than Reconstruction, the tumultuous twelve years after Appomattox, when the battered nation sought to reconstitute itself and confront the legacy of two centuries of slavery. This anthology brings together more than one hundred contemporary letters, diary entries, interviews, testimonies, and articles by ordinary men and women and well-known figures such as Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Andrew Johnson, Thaddeus Stevens, Ulysses S. Grant, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mark Twain, and Albion Tourgée. Through their eyes readers experience the fierce contest between President Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans resulting in the nation's first presidential impeachment; the adoption of the revolutionary 14th and 15th Amendments; the first achievements of black political power; and the murderous terrorism of the Klan and other groups that, combined with northern weariness, indifference, and hostility, eventually resulted in the restoration of white supremacy in the South. Throughout, Americans confront the essential questions left unresolved by the defeat of secession: What system of labor would replace slavery, and what would become of the southern plantations? Would the war end in the restoration of a union of sovereign states, or in the creation of a truly national government? What would citizenship mean after emancipation, and what civil rights would the freed people gain? Would suffrage be extended to African American men, and to all women?