The Education of Betsey Stockton Audiobook Libro.fm

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The life of Betsey Stockton ca 17981865 is a remarkable story of a Black womans journey from slavery to emancipation from antebellum New Jersey to the Hawaiian Islands and from her own selfeducation to a lifetime of teaching others

When Betsey Stockton was a child she was given as a slave to the household of Rev Ashbel Green a prominent pastor and later the president of what is now Princeton University Although she never went to school she devoured the books in Greens library After being emancipated she used that education to benefit other people of color first in Hawaii as a missionary then Philadelphia and for the last three decades of her life Princetona college town with a genteel veneer that never fully hid its racial hostility Betsey Stockton became a revered figure in Princetons sizeable Black population a founder of religious and educational institutions and a leader engaged in the daytoday business of building communities

In this first booklength telling of Betsey Stocktons story Gregory Nobles illuminates both a woman and her world following her around the globe and showing how a determined individual could challenge her societys racial obstacles from the ground up Its at once a revealing lesson on the struggles of Stocktons times and a fresh inspiration for our own