Constance K. Escher

She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton (eBook, ePUB)

The Illustrated Odyssey of a Princeton Slave

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Merging scholarly research and biographical narrative, She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton reveals the true life of a freed and highly educated slave in the Antebellum North. Betsey Stockton's odyssey began in 1798 in Princeton, New Jersey, as "Bet," the child of a slave mother, who captured the heart of her owner and surrogate father Ashbel Green, President of Princeton University. Advanced lessons at Princeton Theological Seminary matched her with lifelong friends Rev. Charles S. Stewart and his pregnant bride Harriet, as the three endured an 158-day voyage as Presbyterian missionaries to the Sandwich Islands in1823. Armchair sailors will savor Stockton's own pre-Moby Dick whaleship journal of her time at sea, a shipboard birth, and life at Lahaina, Maui, where Stockton is celebrated as founding the first school for non-royal Hawaiians. Back on US soil, Stockton became surrogate mother to the Stewarts' three children, sailed with missionaries on the Barge Canal to the Ojibwa Mission School, and later returned to her hometown, establishing a church and four schools which are the centers of a still-vibrant African American Historic District of Witherspoon-Jackson.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781725275461
• Artikelnr.: 63392887

Autorenporträt

Constance K. Escher is a former Research Associate at the Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University. She earned at A.B. degree in American History from Vassar College, and did graduate work at Dartmouth College. She also holds at M.A.T. degree. Her book, published in January 2022, She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton: the Illustrated Odyssey of a Princeton Slave, (1798-1865), merges scholarly research and biographical narrative to reveal the true life of freed and highly educated slave in the Antebellum North. The first woman of color to circumnavigate the globe in 1826 on 158-day voyage on a whaler, Stockton's own literary "Journal" anticipates Melville's Moby Dick. Primary source content presents a portrait of this Princeton Matriarch, and joins the national conversation on overcoming racism, poverty and gender-preference.

Escher's first published She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton in 1990, as a 30-page biographical sketch of the literate freed slave in Princeton.

She founded and directed a "hands-on" Childrens' Museum at Bainbridge House, the Historical Society of Princeton, first publishing an exhibit guide there in 1984, including Betsey Stockton research.

She has published articles in the Princeton Alumni Weekly (P.A.W.), in the Vassar Quarterly, and four biographical entries in the volume: Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women.

Escher taught for twenty-six years in the Princeton Public Schools, receiving the 2007 Amistad Award for Excellence in teaching African American History from the New Jersey Historical Commission, and a Holocaust Commission Award.