Nobles Gregory Nobles

Education of Betsey Stockton (eBook, ePUB)

An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A perceptive and inspiring biography of an extraordinary woman born into slavery who, through grit and determination, became a historic social and educational leader. The life of Betsey Stockton (ca. 1798 1865) is a remarkable story of a Black woman s journey from slavery to emancipation, from antebellum New Jersey to the Hawai ian Islands, and from her own self-education to a lifetime of teaching others all told against the backdrop of the early United States pervasive racism. It s a compelling chronicle of a critical time in American history and a testament to the courage and commitment of a woman whose persistence grew into a potent form of resistance.When Betsey Stockton was a child, she was given, as a slave to the household of Rev. Ashbel Green, a prominent pastor and later the president of what is now Princeton University. Although she never went to school, she devoured the books in Green s library. After being emancipated, she used that education to benefit other people of color, first in Hawai i as a missionary, then Philadelphia, and, for the last three decades of her life, Princeton a college town with a genteel veneer that never fully hid its racial hostility. Betsey Stockton became a revered figure in Princeton s sizeable Black population, a founder of religious and educational institutions, and a leader engaged in the day-to-day business of building communities.In this first book-length telling of Betsey Stockton s story, Gregory Nobles illuminates both a woman and her world, following her around the globe, and showing how a determined individual could challenge her society s racial obstacles from the ground up. It s at once a revealing lesson on the struggles of Stockton s times and a fresh inspiration for our own.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226697864
• Artikelnr.: 72465164

Autorenporträt

Gregory Nobles is professor emeritus of history at Georgia Institute of Technology and a historian who has written extensively on the era from the American Revolution to the Civil War. He is the author or coauthor of several books, most recently John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman.