This book describes the experiences of slaves in Mississippi between 1800 and 1865 and their lives as freedmen between 1865 and 1910. It was designed to fill in the gaps of the struggling and overcoming cycles for African-Americans between 1800 and 1910. It uncovers truths about their lives as slaves and freedmen in Mississippi. It provides information about their personal, work and spiritual lives as slaves. It shows why and how they were the central issue in the Civil War. It provides information about how they were personally impacted by the war scrimmages on a daily basis. It provides information about their lives in the refugee camps during the Civil War. This book is a missionary journey that explores the experiences of ordinary Black People and White people that were born in Mississippi or lived in Mississippi prior to 1910. It provide a greater understanding of the significant roles that the family, home, church, community, school, town, city, county, state, and region played in shaping the lives of Black slaves and their descendants as well as White slave masters and their descendants. It lays a foundation for them to stand on, live on, and prosper. This book talks about how the Negro Freedmen made it from nothing during the days, weeks, months, and years immediately after being freed and outside of the old masters control and care. It talks about how the Negro family order was put in place for the first time since the ancestors left Africa. It talks about how Negro communities and churches were built from scratch. It talks about the difficulty of separating from old White church members and uniting with Negro church members. It talks about how they made social, economic, political and spiritual adjustments during the early days as freedmen. It unfolds the role that the federal government and Northern Whites played in helping Negroes make the adjustment from slavery to freedom. This book talks about how the Negro Freedmen were caught up in a war between Northern Whites and Southern Whites over who will help the freedmen make these adjustments. It describes how Negroes gained control of the political structure in Mississippi and how they lost it. This book helps Blacks and Whites to look beneath the surface, uncover the past problems and challenges, and plot a promising path for a prosperous future. In order to do this, the readers hear the voices from the souls of ex-slaves and ex-slave masters and their descendants. Toward that end, this book is a conversation from the soul that is held in the arms of God. The conversations reveal the problems and prescribe promising solutions to the problems. This book provides insight into the great African-American Story. It revealed some things that had been concealed in the high school and college curricula. It helps the reader to comprehend the truth about the African-American life in Mississippi. It connects African-Americans back to the Divine Infinite Mind of God and His caring arms. The book is a spiritual mind treatment for the abuse that Black People suffered during slavery and after emancipation in the United States. It retraces the steps of his ancestors and things that were significant to them. Those things have helped the author to understand who he is and who his people are. This book opens up with a brief description of the Mississippi Territory before it became a State. It provides messages from ex-slaves about life in the State. It provides insight into the pre-Civil War experiences in Mississippi for Negroes, Whites, and American Indians. It directs the reader through the daily experiences of civilians and soldiers during the Civil War. It takes them through the developing steps of the new social order in Mississippi for Negroes and Whites. Finally, it shows how the entire Country was involved in the shaping of the new social order for Mississippi.
About the Author: The author was born in a shotgun house on the George Dixon plantation in Senatobia, Mississippi. He is the third of eight children born to sharecroppers with limited education and great wisdom. He was trained to perform farm work at the age of five. The activities included: plowing the farmland; chopping cotton; picking cotton; picking and shelling peas; grazing the mules; gathering the cows; milking the cows; feeding the hogs; and maintaining the gardens. The author's first year of schooling was in an old one-room building with one teacher. The one teacher taught eight different grades in the same day at Saint Mary's School in Nesbitt, Mississippi. The author received his elementary and high school education in the segregated public school system of DeSoto County, Mississippi. He graduated as valedictorian of his senior class. He led two major civil rights demonstrations against the school system during his tenure as a student. The author holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry; a Master of Science degree in Organic Chemistry; and a Ph.D degree in Organic Chemistry. He served as a college professor, division chair, dean, provost, executive vice president and interim president of higher educational institutions for more than 30 years. He is President of Divine Fulfillment Institute. He is an ordained minister. He filed and won a major federal lawsuit against the State of Mississippi in 1975. The lawsuit was titled, Frazier v. the State of Mississippi. The lawsuit addressed voter registration discrimination practices against Black College students who desired to register and vote in the city that they resided while attending college. The author's family has been traced back to the Mbundu ethnic tribe in Angola, The Akan ethnic umbrella of tribes in Ghana, and the Yoruba and Fulani ethnic tribes in Nigeria. His 256 great grandparents are believed to have been born and died in West Africa. He has reclassified himself as a Multi-Nationalist. He is on a mission to reconnect his family members across the world. He is the father of five adult children. He is the grandfather of nine grandchildren. He is the author of four books: "Journey into My Soul", "Converting Thoughts and Words into Things and Advancements", "Mississippi: Beneath the Surface!", and "Branded with African Blood."