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For African Americans who have experienced the trauma of
colonization, displacement, enslavement, and race-based violence,
lament has long been a form of cultural expression that creates
space to process these experiences. Lament and Justice in African
American History: By the Rivers of Babylon explores the theme of
lament in African American history from a theological perspective.
In part one of this edited volume, scholars examine historical
examples of African Americans’ use of lament as a framework for
engaging both historical memory and social action. Part two offers
examples of the incorporation of lament as a pedagogical tool in
classrooms and other educational settings. Readers of this book
will appreciate the importance of lament in the African American
Christian tradition and will come away challenged to connect their
own lament with the pursuit of justice.
Owned by his father, Isaac Harold Anderson (1835-1906) was born a
slave but went on to become a wealthy businessman, grocer,
politician, publisher, and religious leader in the African American
community in the state of Georgia. Elected to the state senate,
Anderson replaced his white father there, and later shepherded his
people as a founding member and leader of the Colored Methodist
Episcopal church. He helped support the establishment of Lane
College in Jackson, Tennessee, where he subsequently served as vice
president. Anderson was instrumental in helping freed people leave
Georgia for the security of progressive safe havens with
significantly large Black communities in northern Mississippi and
Arkansas. Eventually under threat to his life, Anderson made his
own exodus to Arkansas, and then later still, to Holly Springs,
Mississippi, where a vibrant Black community thrived. Much of
Anderson's unique story has been lost to history-until now. In The
Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson, author Alicia K. Jackson presents
a biography of Anderson and in it a microhistory of Black religious
life and politics after emancipation. A work of recovery, the
volume captures the life of a shepherd to his journeying people,
and of a college pioneer, a CME minister, a politician, and a
former slave. Gathering together threads from salvaged details of
his life, Jackson sheds light on the varied perspectives and
strategies adopted by Black leaders dealing with a society that was
antithetical to them and to their success.
Owned by his father, Isaac Harold Anderson (1835-1906) was born a
slave but went on to become a wealthy businessman, grocer,
politician, publisher, and religious leader in the African American
community in the state of Georgia. Elected to the state senate,
Anderson replaced his white father there, and later shepherded his
people as a founding member and leader of the Colored Methodist
Episcopal church. He helped support the establishment of Lane
College in Jackson, Tennessee, where he subsequently served as vice
president. Anderson was instrumental in helping freed people leave
Georgia for the security of progressive safe havens with
significantly large Black communities in northern Mississippi and
Arkansas. Eventually under threat to his life, Anderson made his
own exodus to Arkansas, and then later still, to Holly Springs,
Mississippi, where a vibrant Black community thrived. Much of
Anderson's unique story has been lost to history-until now. In The
Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson, author Alicia K. Jackson presents
a biography of Anderson and in it a microhistory of Black religious
life and politics after emancipation. A work of recovery, the
volume captures the life of a shepherd to his journeying people,
and of a college pioneer, a CME minister, a politician, and a
former slave. Gathering together threads from salvaged details of
his life, Jackson sheds light on the varied perspectives and
strategies adopted by Black leaders dealing with a society that was
antithetical to them and to their success.
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