After the Emancipation Proclamation Walter Hawkins was made a Bishop Methodist Episcopal Church in 1890. He became Bishop with the help of Celestine Edwards and also wrote his first autobiography, "From Slavery to Bishopric"(1891). Hawkins later became Methodist Church Minster in Brentford, Canada.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Entry 2 During the Emancipation Proclamation
Walter Hawkins was once again about to be sold. He heard that the dealer had been wanting to bargain him away for nine hundred dollars. Hawkins was arranged to be at his plantation at seven o clock the next morning.
Entry 1 before the Emancipation Proclamation
Walter Hawkins was born a slave in Georgetown, Maryland. Hawkins esaped to Philadelphia shortly after he was bought from a slave owner. The slaves in the south developed a urge and desire for freedom as did the slaves in Jamaica in 1732. Later on along the years St. Domingo succeded in doing so.
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