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From Slave to Statesman The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston by Patricia Smith Prather Jane Clements Monday Introduction by Dan Rather |
"[A] fascinating . . . account of the life and legacy of . . . a slave to Sam Houston who became, once freed in 1863, one of the first black city aldermen and property owners during Reconstruction. . . . [A] good example of history from the bottom up."—Library Journal
"Imaginative biography of a man born without a last name. . . . Of particular interest may be Prather and Monday's ingenious research: they assembled Joshua's story from Margaret and Sam Houston's correspondence and from the family stories of Joshua's descendants."—Booklist
" . . . more than the biography of one man. . . . [It] provides nothing less than a detailed account of the emergence of a Black middle class . . . after the Civil War."—Texas Review
PATRICIA SMITH PRATHER is a member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and a second-generation Tuskegee graduate. JANE CLEMENTS MONDAY is a regent of the Texas State University board and past mayor of Huntsville, Texas.
From Slave to Statesman
ISBN 0-929398-47-5 cloth $32.50s
ISBN 0-929398-87-4 paper $16.95
6x9. 292 pp. 60 b&w photos. 2 maps. Bib. Index.
American History. Southern History. Texas History.
Multicultural History.
Publication Date: January 1995.
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