Soldiers of Light and Love
Soldiers of Light and Love

Author: Jacqueline Jones

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1992-10-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0820323837

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Soldiers of Light and Love is an acclaimed study of the reform-minded northerners who taught freed slaves in the war-torn Reconstruction South. Jacqueline Jones's book, first published in 1980, focuses on the nearly three hundred women who served in Georgia in the chaotic decade following the Civil War. Commissioned by the American Missionary Association and other freedmen's aid societies, these middle-class New Englanders saw themselves as the postbellum, evangelical heirs of the abolitionist cause. Specific in compass, but wide-ranging in significance, Soldiers of Light and Love illuminates the complexity of class, race, and gender issues in early Victorian America.

Joseph Smith Is a Prophet
Joseph Smith Is a Prophet

Author: Rachel Greco

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 1480834661

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Latter-day Saint families introducing youngsters to Joseph Smith and individuals wanting to know more about the prophet will be thrilled with this story that combines history with re-enactment photography to tell his story. From Smiths birth in Vermont, youll learn how he enjoyed playing in the snow and making maple syrupas well as how he struggled with deciding which church to join as he grew older after moving to Palmyra, New York. Jesus would tell Smith not to join a church, and he soon learned why: Smith would be tasked with bringing back the true church of Jesus Christ. Smith became a witness of God and Jesus Christ. Whether youre a child, adolescent, or adult, youll discover insights about the prophet and strengthen your testimony through this refreshing portrayal highlighting the beginnings of the Restoration. Discover how the Lord prepared his servant to reveal the true nature of God to the world in Joseph Smith Is a Prophet.

Life, Letters, and Speeches
Life, Letters, and Speeches

Author: George Copway

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780803214705

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George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh, 1818–69), an Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political, and social circles during the mid-nineteenth century. His colorful, kaleidoscopic life took him from the tiny Ojibwe village of his youth to the halls of state legislatures throughout the eastern United States and eventually overseas. Copway converted to Methodism as a teenager and traveled throughout the Midwest as a missionary, becoming a forceful and energetic spokesperson for temperance and the rights and sovereignty of Indians, lecturing to large crowds in the United States and Europe, and founding a newspaper devoted to Native issues. One of the first Native American autobiographies, Life, Letters and Speeches chronicles Copway's unique and often difficult cultural journey, vividly portraying the freedom of his early childhood, the dramatic moment of his spiritual awakening to Methodism, the rewards and frustrations of missionary work, his desperate race home to warn of a pending Sioux attack, and the harrowing rescue of his son from drowning.