Cole Jean Lee Freedom`s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner 9781935978619

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Автор: Cole Jean Lee
Название: Freedom`s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner
ISBN: 9781935978619
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История

Гражданская война в Америке

ISBN-10: 1935978616
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 287
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 30.03.2013
Серия: Regenerations
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations, black & white halftones
Размер: 213 x 137 x 20
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: History,American Civil War
Подзаголовок: The civil war correspondence of henry mcneal turner
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper The Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from the perspective of a civilian observer in Washington, D.C., and later, as one of the Union armys first black chaplains. In the halls of Congress, Turner witnessed the debates surrounding emancipation and black enlistment. As army chaplain, Turner dodged grape and cannon, comforted the sick and wounded, and settled disputes between white southerners and their former slaves. He was dismayed by the destruction left by Shermans army in the Carolinas, but buoyed by the bravery displayed by black soldiers in battle. After the war ended, he helped establish churches and schools for the freedmen, who previously had been prohibited from attending either. Throughout his columns, Turner evinces his firm belief in the absolute equality of blacks with whites, and insists on civil rights for all black citizens. In vivid, detailed prose, laced with a combination of trenchant commentary and self-deprecating humor, Turner established himself as more than an observer: he became a distinctive and authoritative voice for the black community, and a leader in the African Methodist Episcopal church. After Reconstruction failed, Turner became disillusioned with the American dream and became a vocal advocate of black emigration to Africa, prefiguring black nationalists such as Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X. Here, however, we see Turners youthful exuberance and optimism, and his open-eyed wonder at the momentous changes taking place in American society. Well-known in his day, Turner has been relegated to the fringes of African American history, in large part because neither his views nor the forms in which he expressed them were recognized by either the black or white elite. With an introduction by Jean Lee Cole and a foreword by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Freedoms Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner restores this important figure to the historical and literary record.

Freedom`s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner, Cole Jean Lee