Africa for Christ. Twenty-Eight Years a Slave

By: Thomas Lewis Johnson

Narrated by: Hal Saunders

The first part of Johnson's work deals with his life as a slave in Virginia. At the end of the Civil War in 1865, he gained his freedom and left Virginia for New York, and eventually Africa. The main theme of the book revolves around his missionary effort on the African continent.

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Like most accounts (of anything) that haven’t gone thru rigorous editing and critique, what you get is more raw and more human. Given the time this was written, you can also see the underlying feelings and bias as portrayed by the contemporary recommendations used before the advent of background checks. I have no doubt it is 100% true as the motives are plain laid out for us.