Born Three Times - Couverture rigide

Johnson, Thomas L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1932490299 ISBN 13 : 9781932490299

Editeur : Anza Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

The story of men who become rich is not uncommon. But it is rare to find the story of a man who rose from the very lowest rank in society, a member of a despised caste known as the l slave, to a position among the greatest, as a renowned missionary and lecturer. BORN THREE TIMES is a truly inspiring narrative of human potential and capacity. Thomas Johnson depicts his life under slavery and his life as a * man. The great change in condition, from prisoner to world traveller, from an insignificant "nobody" to celebrated evangelist and speaker - all this seems to be fiction, but it is absolutely true. He describes his slow steps in education. Tasks which other people conquer in childhood, such as learning the alphabet, he must deal with as an adult. Scenes of life which are taken for granted by the *-born, are challenging and unnerving to those who had lived in bondage. Further, Johnson reveals the many complex feelings he had about people and places. In something that is rare in books of this kind, he even discloses the secret opinions he and other slaves held of different tures. England was considered by them to be the greatest nation in the world, because Queen Victoria had done so much to liberate the oppressed. Although he acknowledged that as a black man his racial homeland was in Africa, he appears to have felt surprisingly limited resonance with the ture he encountered during his missionary work there. Johnson made what was at the time a very audacious decision, to move his family overseas to Europe. He felt his real place was in England, a land with which he had absolutely no racial, ethnic or tural affiliations. He makes clear his reason: the widespread prejudice in America, North and South, that existed against former slaves made his life intolerable. However, he noted that this prejudice was not as evident against those blacks iting from other nations-an interesting comment on the peiar nature of racism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Anza Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1932490299
• ISBN 13: 9781932490299
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Éditeur: Sporer Paul Dennis
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible