Biography of a Slave, Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a Preacher
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Biography of a Slave, Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a Preacher
                                            
                            By Charles Thomson
                            
                                16 Oct, 2018                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Charles Thompson was born in Atala County, Mississippi, near the town of Rockford, on March 3, 1833. The son of slaves, he spent most of his life as a slave. This book covers the first half of Thompson's life, when all he knew was slavery, and the ho
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                                                Charles Thompson was born in Atala County, Mississippi, near the town of Rockford, on March 3, 1833. The son of slaves, he spent most of his life as a slave. This book covers the first half of Thompson's life, when all he knew was slavery, and the hope for freedom and the right to determine his own fate was a bitter dream. He intended to write another volume covering his life as a minister and the coming of the Civil War but this was never published. * * * * Reverend Charles Thompson provides a first-hand account of life during slavery in Mississippi and how he helped grow an informal community of Christian worshipers among the slaves on his master's plantation and neighboring estates. African american writer Less