Great Writer: James McBride, THE GOOD LORD BIRD

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Published 2013, 432 pages
Dialectic Journal: 125 pages, 56.388 words, visuals TV series by Ethan Hawke, James McBride

THE GOOD LORD BIRD, James McBride
Prologue 

“Rare Negro Papers Found
by A. J. Watson Wilmington, Del. (AP) June 14, 1966—

A fire that destroyed the city’s oldest Negro church has led to the discovery of a wild slave narrative that highlights a little-known era of American history. The First United Negro Baptist Church of the Abyssinia at 4th and Bainbridge Streets was destroyed by fire last night. Fire officials blamed a faulty gas heater. No one was injured in the blaze. But among the scorched remains were several charred notebooks belonging to a late church deacon that have attracted national academic interest. 
Charles D. Higgins, a congregation member since 1921, died last May. Higgins was a cook, but also an amateur historian who apparently recorded the account of another elderly United Baptist congregation member, Henry “the Onion” Shackleford, who claimed to have been the only Negro to survive the American outlaw John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859. Brown, a white abolitionist, attempted to capture the nation’s largest arsenal to start a war on slavery. The failed raid caused a national panic and prompted the start of America’s Civil War. It led to Brown’s hanging, as well as the deaths of most of his 19 accomplices, including four Negroes. Until now, no full account of Brown or of his men has ever been found or known to exist. (2)

 

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