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Memoir of James Jackson: The Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months (The John Harvard Library)
Memoir of James Jackson The Attentive and Obedient Scholar Who Died in Boston October 31 1833 Aged Six Years and Eleven Months - The John Harvard Library Author:Susan Paul This remarkable document--the first African American biography and a work that predates Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by almost thirty years--is a lost treasure from the annals of African American history. Susan Paul's portrayal of James Jackson's Christian sensibility, his idealism, and his racial awareness empha... more »sizes his humanity and exemplary American character over his racial identity, even as it embeds him in his African American community.« less