She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton : The Illustrated Odyssey of a Princeton Slave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Escher, Constance K.

Contributor:

Baxter, John J.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eugene : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Title Page

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Deconstructing an Icon

Chapter 2: Early Life

Chapter 3: From Childhood Slave to Adult Missionary

Chapter 4: Bidding the American Shores Adieu

Chapter 5: "East of Eden"

Chapter 6: Departures and Accusations, 1824-1826

Chapter 7: Tragedy and Transitions

Chapter 8: "When We Set Forward Wilderspin, We Set Back Fagin"

Chapter 9: To Grape Island, Canada, and the Ojibwa School, Summer 1829

Chapter 10: Betsey Stockton Keeps Princeton Township District School No. Six and a Night School

Chapter 11: Betsey Stockton Founds the Witherspoon Street Church for the Colored324

Chapter 12: Matriarchy

Appendix A: Princeton's Presbyterian African Americans1

Appendix B: Essential Chronology of Betsey Stockton's Life

Reading Group Guide

Bibliography.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781725275461

1725275465

OCLC:

1503844264