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Author Slover, James Anderson, 1824-1913.

Title Minister to the Cherokees : a Civil War autobiography / James Anderson Slover ; edited by Barbara Cloud
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 212 pages) : portrait
Summary In 1857 James Anderson Slover rode into Indian Territory as the first Southern Baptist missionary to the Cherokee Nation. As the Civil War began to divide the Cherokees along with the rest of the nation, Slover was caught up in one of the most intense dramas of his century. As a farmer, teacher, preacher and evangelist, observer of the Mexican War and the Civil War, contemporary commentator on slavery, and California pioneer, Slover played a small role in changing the face of the nation. It was in 1907, a year after he helped build shelters for people left homeless by the great San Francisco e
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and index
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Subject Slover, James Anderson, 1824-1913.
SUBJECT Slover, James Anderson, 1824-1913
Slover, James Anderson, 1824-1913 fast
Subject Baptists -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Baptist.
Baptists -- Clergy
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Cloud, Barbara Lee
ISBN 0803203020
9780803203020
1280465778
9781280465772