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The Talking Book
African Americans and the Bible
Allen Dwight Callahan
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1
chapter
one
The
Talking
Book
And
I
longed
to
read
my
Bible,
For
precious
words
it
said;
But
when
I
begun
to
learn
it,
Folks
just
shook
their
heads,
And
said
there
was
no
use
trying,
Oh!
Chloe,
you’re
too
late;
But
as
I
was
rising
sixty,
I
had
no
time
to
wait.
So
I
got
a
pair
of
glasses,
And
straight
to
work
I
went,
And
never
stopped
til
I
could
read
The
hymns
and
Testament.
Then
I
got
a
little
cabin
—
A
place
to
call
my
own
—
And
I
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
a
manuscript
written
in
Arabic
script
by
a
West
African
Muslim
named
London
who
was
a
slave
on
a
Georgia
plantation.
The
language
corresponded
to
none
of
the
dialects
that
the
learned
philologist
knew.
The
letters
formed
the
following
mysterious
sounds:
“fas
chapta
o
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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APA 6 Citation
Callahan, A. D. (2008). The Talking Book (1st ed.). Yale University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1089508/the-talking-book-african-americans-and-the-bible-pdf (Original work published 2008)
Chicago Citation
Callahan, Allen Dwight. (2008) 2008. The Talking Book. 1st ed. Yale University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/1089508/the-talking-book-african-americans-and-the-bible-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Callahan, A. D. (2008) The Talking Book. 1st edn. Yale University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1089508/the-talking-book-african-americans-and-the-bible-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Callahan, Allen Dwight. The Talking Book. 1st ed. Yale University Press, 2008. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.