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To Lift Up My Race - The Essential Writings of Samuel Robert Cassius (Hardcover)
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To Lift Up My Race - The Essential Writings of Samuel Robert Cassius (Hardcover)
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Born into slavery in 1853, taught to read by his half-white,
half-black mother, and attending school in Washington, D.C., during
Reconstruction, Samuel Robert Cassius is a fascinating and
instructive example of the first generation of freed slaves in the
United States. To Lift Up My Race, a collection of writings by
Cassius, gives us the man-evangelist, educator, farmer,
entrepreneur, postmaster, politician, and father of twenty-three-in
a significant moment in the emergence of black culture and society
between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. Chronologically
and thematically organized, this book contains nearly all of the
extant-and all of the crucial-writings of Cassius. Consequently, we
see firsthand an ex-slave from Virginia who joins the
Stone-Campbell movement (Churches of Christ) in 1883 and emerges as
the most influential African American leader and evangelist in that
movement. He traveled throughout the United States and Canada,
"planting" congregations and propagating what he called the "pure
Gospel of Jesus Christ." Cassius was also a remarkably successful
fundraiser, often using humor in the articles he wrote for several
publications, including the Christian Leader. In addition, Cassius
was the author of such pamphlets as Negro Evangelization and the
Tohee Industrial School (one of the "workingmen's schools" he
helped to found) and The Letter and the Spirit of the Race Problem.
In 1920, he published his most important literary work, The Third
Birth of a Nation, a response to D. W. Griffith's film The Birth of
a Nation. The volume offers readers the vision and the voice of a
black preacher and writer who endeavored to correct the racism of
white America while simultaneously altering the religious beliefs
and values of black America, often clashing with and sometimes
alienating both. Edward J. Robinson is assistant professor of
history and biblical studies at Abilene Christian University. He is
the editor of A Godsend to His People: The Essential Writings and
Speeches of Marshall Keeble and author of To Save My Race from
Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius.
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