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000437884 1001_ $$aWebber, Christopher.
000437884 24510 $$aAmerican to the backbone :$$bthe life of James W.C. Pennington, the fugitive slave who became one of the first black abolitionists /$$cChristopher L. Webber.
000437884 250__ $$a1st Pegasus Books ed.
000437884 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPegasus Books,$$c2011.
000437884 300__ $$a493 p., [8] p. of plates :$$bill., map, ports. ;$$c24 cm.
000437884 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000437884 5050_ $$aFinding freedom -- Slavery as it was -- Pennsylvania -- Brooklyn, part I -- Brooklyn, Part II -- School teacher in Newton -- Yale -- Return to Newton -- Hartford, part I -- Hartford, part II -- The Mendi mission -- England -- New beginning in Hartford -- Hartford, part III -- New York, 1848-1849 -- Great Britain, 1849-1851 -- New York, 1851-1852 -- New York, 1853-1854 -- New York, 1854-1855 -- New York, 1855 -- Hartford and New York, 1856-1864 -- Mississippi, Maine, and Florida, 1864-1870.
000437884 520__ $$aThe incredible story of a forgotten hero of nineteenth century New York City who was a former slave, Yale scholar, minister, and international leader of the Antebellum abolitionist movement.  At the age of 19, scared and illiterate, James Pennington escaped from slavery in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery prior to the Civil War. Just ten years after his escape, Pennington was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church after studying at Yale. Moving to Hartford, he became involved with the Amistad captives and founded the first African American mission society.  He traveled to England as a delegate to a world Anti-Slavery Convention and served also as a delegate to an international peace convention.   Later he traveled widely in Britain and on the continent to gain support for the American abolition movement.  He was so respected by European audiences that the University of Heidelberg awarded him an honorary doctorate, making him the first person of African descent to receive such a degree.  As he fought for equal rights in America, Pennington's voice was not limited to the preacher's pulpit. He wrote the first-ever "History of the Colored People" as well as a careful study of the moral basis for civil disobedience, which would be echoed decades later by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
000437884 60010 $$aPennington, James W. C.
000437884 650_0 $$aAfrican American abolitionists$$vBiography.
000437884 650_0 $$aAfrican American civil rights workers$$vBiography.
000437884 650_0 $$aAfrican American clergy$$vBiography.
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