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Twenty Eight Years a Slave; Or, the Story of My Life in Three Continents

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Born enslaved in Virginia in 1836, Thomas Lewis Johnson refused to let bondage define the course of his life. Secretly teaching himself to read and write, and later finding faith through an evangelical conversion, Johnson charted a path of resilience that would carry him far beyond the plantation where he began. His early years, shaped by family separation and the brutality of slavery, gave him a lifelong determination to witness against injustice.After Emancipation, Johnson moved north, working as a waiter while devoting himself to the Baptist Church. His leadership quickly drew notice, and he was called to missionary service—first in Denver, then abroad. He studied at the renowned Spurgeon’s College in England, a rare opportunity for a Black man in his era, and went on to serve as a missionary in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cameroon.Johnson eventually returned to America and England, where he published his autobiography. Widely read and reprinted for decades, the book testified both to the horrors of slavery and to the possibilities of faith, education, and perseverance. Until his death, Johnson kept a whip and slave chains as reminders, ensuring that his story was used to educate others about the cruelties man could impose on man.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-11
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieClemson University Press w/ LUP
Antal sidor336
FörlagClemson University Digital Press
ISBN9781638042235

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Susanna Ashton is a full Professor with the Department of English at Clemson University. Among other awards, she has been a Fulbright scholar in Ireland and a faculty fellow at Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, a Mark Twain Fellow for the Mark Twain Society, and held archival fellowships at Emory University and the Houghton Library of Harvard University. For 2021-2022 she is the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African And African American Research at Harvard University. She has published work on the topic of life writing written by enslaved people as well as works on book history, authorship, libraries, copyright, and the author Charles W. Chesnutt. In 2018 that volume won an award for the best scholarly work on Chesnutt by the Charles W. Chesnutt Society. She is currently at work on a biography of John Andrew Jackson and is a 2021-22 Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Thomas Lewis Johnson (1836-1921) was one of the most widely traveled and published Black religious figures of the late nineteenth century. Born enslaved in Virginia, he became a Baptist minister, international lecturer, missionary, and author whose work carried him from the American South to England and West Africa. A close associate of the celebrated preacher Charles H. Spurgeon, Johnson advocated for greater roles for Black missionaries and religious leaders while building a remarkable career within transatlantic evangelical networks. His memoir, Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, preserves an important account of slavery, emancipation, faith, and Black global citizenship.