What Love Can Do: Recollected Stories of Slavery and Freedom in New Orleans and the Surrounding Area

by Arthur Mitchell

Book Overview

Henry Goody Johns was the eldest son of a beautiful young slave girl from East Central Africa and her Louisiana Master. Given the choice by his father to pass for white or to remain a slave, Johns chose to forever identify with his black mother and siblings, later becoming a pastor to his community after the Emancipation Proclamation.

This volume of stories about Henry Goody Johns, who taught his people "What Love Can Do" is oral history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 145254624X
• ISBN13: 9781452546247
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"