WVU Press Publishes Freedom’s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner
West Virginia University Press has published Freedom’s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner, edited by Jean Cole and with a foreword by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, a professor at WVU. Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) was born free, but poor, in South Carolina. He joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church as a young man and…