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The Great Absquatulator (Paperback)
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The Great Absquatulator (Paperback)
Series: Baraka Nonfiction
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Alfred Thomas Wood was nothing and everything. One hundred years
before the Hollywood film "The Great Impostor," Wood, the Great
Absquatulator, roved through the momentous mid-19th century events
from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to New England, Liberia, Great Britain,
Ireland, Germany, Canada, the U.S. Mid-West and the South. An
Oxford-educated preacher in Maine and Boston, he claimed to be a
Cambridge-educated doctor of divinity in Liberia, whereas neither
University admitted black students then. He spent 18 months in an
English prison. In Hamburg in 1854, he published a history of
Liberia in German. Later, in Montreal, he claimed to have been
Superintendent of Public Works in Sierra Leone. He served the
African Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois as
an Oxford-educated DD, then toiled in post-Civil War Tennessee as a
Cambridge-trained MD. People who knew him couldn't wait to forget
him.In his Foreword, Rapper Webster (Aly Ndiaye) compares Wood to a
mid-19th-century Forrest Gump but also to Malcolm X, before Malcolm
became political.
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