The Fugitive Blacksmith and Other Essential Writings by James W.C. Pennington

Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in the U.S. at Heidelberg University. He has written books and essays on a range of topics in the fields of American religious history and American literature, including Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (2016). Caitlin B. Smith is Assistant Professor of Early American Literature at St. Bonaventure University. She has published multiple journal articles on nineteenth-century American literature and religion, with a special focus on early freethinking societies and constructions of doubt.Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own and We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For. Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Chronology of James W.C. Pennington's LifeIntroductionSection 1: Pennington's Autobiography and Writings on His Life1.1 The Fugitive Blacksmith1.2 Frederick Douglass on Pennington 1.3 The Story of Pennington's Brother and Nephews 1.4 A Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe1.5 Petition for Pennington's Honorary Doctor of Divinity to Heidelberg's Faculty of TheologySection 2: African American History and Destiny; Black Education and Excellence2.1 A Text Book of the Origin and History of the Colored People2.2 The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade2.3. The Destiny of Black People in the United States2.4