The looking-glass
Subtitle: being a true report and narrative of the life, travels, and labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored clergyman : embracing a period of time from the year 1812 to 1854, and including his visit to western Africa
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; Free African Americans; African American clergy; Clergy; Colonization; Description and travel; Social conditions; African Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Land of rest, peace and unity, a government of wisdom and equality.; North American slave narratives.
Description: Not a slave himself, Daniel H. Peterson was born to slave parents in Maryland in the early 1800's. As a child, he worked in Baltimore until he successfully emancipated his mother. While employed, he received some education and religious instruction. Following his marriage to Mary Trusty, he acquired a license to preach and served as a minister in Philadelphia. He had problems with the Bethel Church there, which he felt was not following God's will and he was outspoken on their handing of finances, the church building and membership. Later, he traveled to Liberia and other West African countries where he encourages members of his race to settle because of better opportunities available in agriculture, farming, and business, as well as the superior standards of equality practiced by Liberia's citizens. Peterson includes letters of recommendation from various pastors and prominent individuals and third-person accounts of the Liberia expedition.
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Transcribed from: The looking-glass : being a true report and narrative of the life, travels, and labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored clergyman : embracing a period of time from the year 1812 to 1854, and including his visit to western Africa. New York : Wright, Printer, 1854. x, 13-150 p. : ill. ; 16 cm. On cover: A land of rest, peace and unity, a government of wisdom and equality.

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