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Providence
Will D. Campbell
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Description for Providence
Paperback. Chronicles the 170-year history of a square mile of plantation land in Holmes County, Mississippi. Shifting between history and autobiography, this title illustrates the quest for justice among the Choctaws, African-Americans, and Whites on the parcel of land designated Section 13. Num Pages: 293 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; 3JH; 3JJ; DN; HBTB; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
Hailed as Will Campbell's most literary work, Providence chronicles the more than 170-year history of a square mile of plantation land in Holmes County, Mississippi. Shifting between history and autobiography, Campbell illustrates the quest for justice among the Choctaws, African-Americans, and Whites on the parcel of land designated Section 13. From the forcible removal of native Choctaws, to slavery and sharecropping on the Providence Plantation, to an interracial cooperative farm in the 1930s-50s, and finally to the present-day ownership by the Department of the Interior, Providence, according to Campbell, ""has seen a lot. In a way its saga is the ... Read more
Hailed as Will Campbell's most literary work, Providence chronicles the more than 170-year history of a square mile of plantation land in Holmes County, Mississippi. Shifting between history and autobiography, Campbell illustrates the quest for justice among the Choctaws, African-Americans, and Whites on the parcel of land designated Section 13. From the forcible removal of native Choctaws, to slavery and sharecropping on the Providence Plantation, to an interracial cooperative farm in the 1930s-50s, and finally to the present-day ownership by the Department of the Interior, Providence, according to Campbell, ""has seen a lot. In a way its saga is the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
Number of Pages
317
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9780918954848
SKU
V9780918954848
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About Will D. Campbell
Will D. Campbell is widely considered one of the nation's most important commentators on race, religion, and community. The only white minister at the creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Campbell was actively involved in the Civil Rights movement in the South. A graduate of Wakeforest University and Yale Divinity School, Campbell has authored seventeen books. ... Read more
Reviews for Providence
The book that follows addresses the issues of poverty and bigotry in ways that few readers will soon forget and from a Christian perspective that we might all endeavor to emulate.
Frederick Barton, from the introduction
Frederick Barton, from the introduction