James Solomon Russell: Former Slave, Pioneering Educator and Episcopal Evangelist

by Worth Earlwood Norman Jr.

Born into slavery on a Virginia plantation in 1857, James Solomon Russell (1857-1935) rose to become one of the most prominent African American pastors in the post-Civil War South. As a minister, educator, and founder of Saint Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Virginia, he played a major role in the development of educational access for former slaves in the South and within the Episcopal Church from the end of Radical Reconstruction to the early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786467894
• ISBN13: 9780786467891
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher