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What Love Can Do

Recollected Stories of Slavery and Freedom in New Orleans and the Surrounding Area

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  • 118 pages
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The narrative follows Henry Goody Johns, the son of a young slave girl and her Louisiana master, who faces a pivotal choice between passing for white or embracing his black heritage. Choosing to identify with his mother and siblings, he becomes a pastor after the Emancipation Proclamation, highlighting themes of identity, family loyalty, and the struggle for dignity in a post-slavery society.

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What Love Can Do, Arthur Mitchell

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