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Shadow and Light - An Autobiography (Paperback, New Ed)
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Shadow and Light - An Autobiography (Paperback, New Ed)
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List price R462
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Discovery Miles 3 990
You Save R63 (14%)
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Adventure, danger, romance - Mifflin W. Gibbs seemed to invite them
in his determination to better himself. He staked out considerable
success as an entrepreneur and public voice in the American West
before moving on to other frontiers. In California, where he had
gone to seek his fortune, he was politically active, protesting the
poll tax, editing a newspaper, and generally speaking out. After
exile in Canada, necessitated by his civil-rights agitation and the
political climate, Gibbs returned to the United States in 1869 - to
Oberlin, Ohio, where he earned a degree in law. Then he went to
Little Rock, Arkansas, serving as a judge until his appointment as
U.S. Consul to Madagascar in 1897. Shadow and Light offers many
historical sidelights - on the underground railroad young Gibbs
knew first hand, the abolition movement, the Spanish-American War,
and nineteenth-century race relations. Acting always on his concern
for what he called "the progress of the race", Gibbs won the
support and friendship of leaders as diverse as Frederick Douglass
and Booker T. Washington.
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