The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson
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The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson

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The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson

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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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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Year
2021
ISBN
9781496835185
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE RECOVERED LIFE OF ISAAC ANDERSON
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Dedication
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson
  9. Chapter One: 1868
  10. Chapter Two: William Jackson Anderson
  11. Chapter Three: Isaac Anderson
  12. Chapter Four: Georgia
  13. Chapter Five: 1870
  14. Chapter Six: Exodus
  15. Chapter Seven: Promised Land
  16. Chapter Eight: The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
  17. Epilogue: The Forgetting
  18. Notes
  19. ABOUT THE AUTHOR