{"product_id":"she-calls-herself-betsey-stockton-the-illustrated-odyssey-of-a-princeton-slave-paperback","title":"She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton: The Illustrated Odyssey of a Princeton Slave - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eConstance K. Escher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn J. Baxter\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMerging scholarly research and biographical narrative, She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton reveals the true life of a freed and highly educated slave in the Antebellum North. Betsey Stockton's odyssey began in 1798 in Princeton, New Jersey, as \"Bet,\" the child of a slave mother, who captured the heart of her owner and surrogate father Ashbel Green, President of Princeton University. Advanced lessons at Princeton Theological Seminary matched her with lifelong friends Rev. Charles S. Stewart and his pregnant bride Harriet, as the three endured an 158-day voyage as Presbyterian missionaries to the Sandwich Islands in1823. Armchair sailors will savor Stockton's own pre-Moby Dick whaleship journal of her time at sea, a shipboard birth, and life at Lahaina, Maui, where Stockton is celebrated as founding the first school for non-royal Hawaiians. Back on US soil, Stockton became surrogate mother to the Stewarts' three children, sailed with missionaries on the Barge Canal to the Ojibwa Mission School, and later returned to her hometown, establishing a church and four schools which are the centers of a still-vibrant African American Historic District of Witherspoon-Jackson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eConstance K. Escher is a former Research Associate at the Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eShe Calls Herself Betsey Stockton\u003c\/i\u003e, a biography. Escher taught for twenty-six years in the Princeton Public Schools. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43082073866375,"sku":"9781725275447","price":28.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7QEUflj3X89781725275447.webp?v=1756313415","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/she-calls-herself-betsey-stockton-the-illustrated-odyssey-of-a-princeton-slave-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}