Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist
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by Lawrence Goodman. Mary Armstrong was born into slavery on a farm near St. Louis, Missouri. At the end of her life, she told an interviewer that her owners were “the meanest two white folks who ever lived.”
Houston's Freedmen. Mary Armstrong: A Freedwoman. The subject of this week’s 70 Years a Freedmen series will be Mary Armstrong, a formerly enslaved woman interviewed by the Works Projects Administration (WPA) at her Houston residence.
Nov 1, 2013 · Lending a Helping Hand: Mary E. Armstrong, C.S.D. By. Cheryl P. Moneyhun. - November 1, 2013. Mary Armstrong in front of her home at 99 Falmouth Street in Boston, circa 1900. Longyear Museum collection. When Mary Armstrong came into the ranks of Christian Scientists, she came wholeheartedly and humbly.
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- The Camps
- Life in The Camps
- A Good Pair of Shoes
- Spirituality
- A New Paradigm
In 1863, newly freed from bondage and living in St. Louis, 17-year-old Mary Armstrong did the unthinkable — she journeyed to the slave-holding South. Armstrong, one of more than 2,000 former slaves who told their stories to the New Deal’s Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s, had been separated from her parents as a child when they were sold ...
A camp could hold anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand people, most of them living in barracks or fabric tents. Another group of camps located mainly in the South behind Confederate lines was created ad hoc by blacks themselves. (Cooper has posted an interactive mapof the locations of the camps). At a camp in Hampton, Virginia called Sla...
Conditions in many of the camps were squalid and disease was common. Black refugees lived in constant fear and terror of raids from southern whites. At one point, the Confederate army plundered and burned Slabtown to the ground. Whites also lived in the camps, most of them seeking shelter from the war. They were treated differently from blacks. A r...
Refugees carried money and protective charms in their shoes. They also fashioned footwear from plantain leaves. Their pungent smell was useful in throwing off the scent of the hounds used by patrollers and former owners to track them down.
Cooper says folk religion informed black visions for their new society. Emancipation as a divine reckoning was the lens through which they defined liberty. Freedom meant the right to practice their religion. It was through refugee camps, Cooper wrote in her thesis, that black refugees “sought to transform the Egypt of the Slave South into a New Can...
Freedom had a spiritual dimension that fueled a radical transformation of what it meant to be a black American.
Jul 29, 2002 · Mary Carew Armstrong, who won a gold medal at the 1932 Olympics as a member of a record-breaking 4x100-meter relay team, died here July 12. She was 88. Armstrong was 15 in 1929 when she won...
Actress: Hello Again. Mary Armstrong was born in New York City, New York, USA. She is known for Hello Again (1987), Celebrity (1984) and Dallas (1978).
