{"id":63286,"date":"2022-02-26T16:10:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T16:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63286"},"modified":"2022-03-08T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:07:17","slug":"to-lift-up-my-race-the-essential-writings-of-samuel-robert-cassius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63286","title":{"rendered":"To Lift Up My Race: The Essential Writings of Samuel Robert Cassius"},"content":{"rendered":"

To Lift Up My Race: The Essential Writings of Samuel Robert Cassius<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Tennessee Press<\/a>
\n2008-12-30
\n215 pages
\n6.27 x 0.85 x 9.11 inches
\nHardcover ISBN-13: 978-1572336186<\/p>\n

Samuel Robert Cassius<\/strong><\/a> (1853-1931)<\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Edward J. Robinson<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History and Biblical Studies
\nAbilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Born into slavery in 1853, taught to read by his half-white, half-black mother, and attending school in Washington, D.C.<\/a>, during Reconstruction<\/a>, Samuel Robert Cassius<\/a> is a fascinating and instructive example of the first generation of freed slaves in the United States. To Lift Up My Race<\/em>, a collection of writings by Cassius, gives us the man\u2013evangelist, educator, farmer, entrepreneur, postmaster, politician, and father of twenty-three\u2013in a significant moment in the emergence of black culture and society between Reconstruction and the Great Depression<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chronologically and thematically organized, this book contains nearly all of the extant-and all of the crucial-writings of Cassius. Consequently, we see firsthand an ex-slave from Virginia<\/a> who joins the Stone-Campbell<\/a> movement (Churches of Christ<\/a>) in 1883 and emerges as the most influential African American leader and evangelist in that movement. He traveled throughout the United States<\/a> and Canada<\/a>, \u201cplanting\u201d congregations and propagating what he called the \u201cpure Gospel of Jesus Christ.\u201d Cassius was also a remarkably successful fundraiser, often using humor in the articles he wrote for several publications, including the Christian Leader<\/em>. In addition, Cassius was the author of such pamphlets as \u201cNegro Evangelization and the Tohee Industrial School<\/a>\u201d (one of the \u201cworkingmen\u2019s schools\u201d he helped to found) and \u201cThe Letter and the Spirit of the Race Problem.\u201d In 1920, he published his most important literary work, The Third Birth of a Nation<\/em><\/a>, a response to D. W. Griffith\u2019s<\/a> film The Birth of a Nation<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The volume offers readers the vision and the voice of a black preacher and writer who endeavored to correct the racism of white America while simultaneously altering the religious beliefs and values of black America, often clashing with and sometimes alienating both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“To Lift Up My Race,” a collection of writings by Cassius, gives us the man\u2013evangelist, educator, farmer, entrepreneur, postmaster, politician, and father of twenty-three\u2013in a significant moment in the emergence of black culture and society between Reconstruction and the Great Depression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,459,8,17,820,20],"tags":[33168,33169,3548],"class_list":["post-63286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-religion","category-usa","tag-edward-j-robinson","tag-samuel-robert-cassius","tag-university-of-tennessee-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63331,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63286\/revisions\/63331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}