| Edition |
First Pegasus Books edition. |
| Description |
493 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [443]-479) and index. |
| Summary |
At the age of 19, scared and illiterate, James Pennington escaped from slavery in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery prior to the Civil War. Just ten years after his escape, Pennington was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church after studying at Yale. Moving to Hartford, he became involved with the Amistad captives and founded the first African American mission society. He traveled to England as a delegate to a world Anti-Slavery Convention and served also as a delegate to an international peace convention. He was so respected by European audiences that the University of Heidelberg awarded him an honorary doctorate, making him the first person of African descent to receive such a degree. He wrote the first-ever "History of the Colored People" as well as a careful study of the moral basis for civil disobedience, which would be echoed decades later by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Subject |
Pennington, James W. C.
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African American abolitionists -- Biography.
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African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
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African American clergy -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781605981758 trade |
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1605981753 trade |
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