The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to ScholarshipWayne State University Press, 2005 - 425 An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon. "If W.E.B Du Bois, the antecedent of today's black public intellectuals, himself has an antecedent, it is W. S. Scarborough, the black scholar's scholar." - Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough is a valuable historical record of the life and work of a pioneer who helped formalize the intellectual tradition of the black scholar. Michele Valerie Ronnick contextualizes Scarborough's narrative through extensive notes and by exploring a wide variety of sources such as census records, church registries, period newspapers, and military and university records. This book is indispensable to anyone interested in the history of intellectual endeavor in America, Africana studies and classical studies, in particular, as well as those familiar with the associations and institutions that welcomed and valued Scarborough. |
Spis treści
Introduction | 1 |
Parentage | 23 |
Boyhood Days | 27 |
Macon and Atlanta School Days | 37 |
Four Years in Oberlin College | 46 |
Seeking a Path | 55 |
The Path Found | 63 |
Widening FieldsWorking Learning Growing | 68 |
Friends and HelpersDeaths | 131 |
Back to the Classical Professorship and a Vice Presidency | 147 |
First European TripDelegate to the Third Methodist Ecumenical ConferenceLondon 1901 | 164 |
Miscellaneous Activities | 185 |
Made President of Wilberforce University | 196 |
World War I Work | 247 |
Local and Closing War Labors | 259 |
Close of Fortyfive Years in the Field of Education | 271 |
AuthorshipGreek BookMarriage | 75 |
Philology and Politics | 81 |
Philology and Other Literary Work | 91 |
In Politics and Magazines | 98 |
In Payne Seminary and at a Southern University | 114 |
At the Worlds Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition | 123 |
Third Visit to EuropeAgain Delegate to the Methodist | 282 |
A New Field of Labor | 292 |
Looking Backward and Forward | 316 |
Notes | 333 |
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