Pioneer Colored Christians Sold As Is by Miller, Harriet Parks - 1911

Forgotten Books, 2018. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback / softback. New.

Clarksville, Tn: W.P. Titus, Printer and Binder, 1911. 103pp., plus eleven photographic plates. Grey printed wrappers. A history of the African American community of Port Royal, Tennessee, centered around the Carr family, founders of the historic Mt. Zion Baptist Church. The history was compiled by Harriet Parks Miller, a white resident of Port Royal, from interviews with church pioneers and community members. The book begins with an interview of then-86-year-old Aunt Kitty Carr, who was born free in the state of Virginia in 1915, followed by an interview of her husband, Uncle Horace Carr, the first pastor of the church, who was born into slavery in Tennessee. The book contains anecdotes of antebellum times, for instance descriptions of how whites and blacks used to worship in the same church, an interview in which Uncle John McGowan describes being sold, and a description of an antebellum corn shucking by Horace Carr. The book also covers the Civil War period as well as the period after the war,… Read More