The Talking Book
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The Talking Book

African Americans and the Bible

Allen Dwight Callahan

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The Talking Book

African Americans and the Bible

Allen Dwight Callahan

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Year
2008
ISBN
9780300137873
Edition
1
1
chapter 
one
The 
Talking 
Book
And 
longed 
to 
read 
my 
Bible,
For 
precious 
words 
it 
said;
But 
when 
begun 
to 
learn 
it,
Folks 
just 
shook 
their 
heads,
And 
said 
there 
was 
no 
use 
trying,
Oh! 
Chloe, 
you’re 
too 
late;
But 
as 
was 
rising 
sixty,
had 
no 
time 
to 
wait.
So 
got 
pair 
of 
glasses,
And 
straight 
to 
work 
went,
And 
never 
stopped 
til 
could 
read
The 
hymns 
and 
Testament.
Then 
got 
little 
cabin 
— 
place 
to 
call 
my 
own 
— 
And 
felt 
as 
independent
As 
the 
queen 
upon 
her 
throne.
— 
Frances 
Harper, 
“Learning 
to 
Read”
he 
was 
stymied. 
In 
the 
1850s, 
William 
Brown 
Hodgson 
struggled 
to 
translate 
manuscript 
written 
in 
Arabic 
script 
by 
West 
African 
Muslim 
named 
London 
who 
was 
slave 
on 
Georgia 
plantation. 
The 
language 
corresponded 
to 
none 
of 
the 
dialects 
that 
the 
learned 
philologist 
knew. 
The 
letters 
formed 
the 
following 
mysterious 
sounds: 
“fas 
chapta 
jon 
inde 
be 
ginnen 
wasde 
wad 
and 
wad 
was 
wid 
god 
ande 
wad 
was 
god.” 
Hodgson 
puzzled 
over 
the 
unintelligible 
text 
until, 
sounding 
it 
out 
phonetically, 
he 
realized 
that 
the 
lines 
of 
Arabic 
script 
were 
from 
neither 
an 
Arabic 
text 
nor 
an 
Arabic 
translation 
of 
an 
English 
text. 
London 
had 
used 
Arabic 
letters 
to 

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