{"id":60897,"date":"2022-01-04T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60897"},"modified":"2022-01-04T18:12:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:12:25","slug":"the-recovered-life-of-isaac-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60897","title":{"rendered":"The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University Press of Mississippi<\/a>
\n2021-12-15
\n256 pages
\n16 b&w illustrations
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781496835147
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781496835130<\/p>\n

Alicia K. Jackson<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History
\nCovenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The story of an enslaved man who became a Georgia<\/a> state senator, helped found a church, and led his people to promise and hope<\/em><\/p>\n

Owned by his father, Isaac Harold Anderson<\/a> (1835\u20131906) 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<\/a>. 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<\/a> church. He helped support the establishment of Lane College<\/a> in Jackson, Tennessee<\/a>, where he subsequently served as vice president.<\/p>\n

Anderson was instrumental in helping freed people leave Georgia for the security of progressive safe havens with significantly large Black communities in northern Mississippi<\/a> and Arkansas<\/a>. Eventually under threat to his life, Anderson made his own exodus to Arkansas, and then later still, to Holly Springs, Mississippi<\/a>, where a vibrant Black community thrived.<\/p>\n

Much of Anderson\u2019s unique story has been lost to history\u2014until now. In The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson<\/em>, author Alicia K. Jackson presents a biography of Anderson and in it a microhistory<\/a> of Black religious life and politics after emancipation<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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