And Galileo Saw A Pendulum,
While Sitting In A Church
A Freedom Play Piece
by Sara Kumar
about life
when the Civil War was coming to an end,
in Tennessee,
and Washington City,
and how a scientific idea
was needed
to help a friend be free.
Let me pray for peace, said the playwright.
The Greenville Herald
Greeneville, Tennessee
Thu, Mar. 17, 1881, Page 3
​Dolly Johnson opened a bakery,
on St. Patrick's Day in 1881.
Now, dat be a guud headline,
said Henry Harding, from Tennessee
Rain yesterday.
Moonlight nights.
Spring not far off.
All sorts of weather.
This is St. Patrick's day.
Gardening has commenced.
Maryville is to have a bank.
Now is the time to advertise.
Yield not to discouragements.
Mr. John Brabson is at home
on a visit.
Our farmers are busy getting
ready to plant.
Try the HERALD six months-
only fifty cents.
Attend carefully to the details
of your business.
Ask your neighbor to subscribe
for the HERALD.
Snow was visible on the moun-
tains last Sunday.
Paints, Oils, Varnish and Brush-
es at Isaac O. Harrell's.
Country produce taken on sub-
scription for the HERALD.
Dolly Johnson opened a bakery, on St. Patrick's Day in 1881.
Our
Story
Part of
Our Introduction
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William Johnson was the youngest
of Dolly’s three children, and he
loved to dress in beautiful black
coats, like his uncle, Sam
Johnson did. William Johnson was
born in February of 1858.
Play text
is for eleventh grade reading, to accompany,
American Literature
and United States History, and also,
undergraduate
studies in Drama
and Literature.
Image Courtesy of Library of Congress
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Pictured left is the same man,
William, who was presented with
a silver-handle cane, when he
visited then President Franklin D.
Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., in
the year 1937.
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The Emancipation
Proclamation was signed by
then President Abraham Lincoln
on January 1, 1863.
NOT EVERY STATE
IN THE SOUTH
WAS INCLUDED.
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TENNESSEE WAS NOT INCLUDED,
SO THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, ENDING SLAVERY IN ALL THE UNITED STATES WAS NEEDED.
Military Governor Andrew Johnson
gave a speech on August 22, 1863,
to Tennesseans gathered in the city of Franklin,
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in which he tried to rationalize the need for
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation,
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in a way that would appeal to racial prejudice.
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Johnson began a speaking tour in Indianapolis,
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Cincinnati, Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore
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in February, 1863, soon after Lincoln
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had signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
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On March 27, 1863, Johnson wrote a letter,
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to his wife Eliza, from Washington City.
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She lived in Greeneville, Tennessee,
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but during that time, she was visiting their daughter,
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Mary, in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Johnson went to see his wife Eliza in May of 1863,
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in Louisville, Kentucky,
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before returning to Nashville, later that month.
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You were wounded, at Fort Wagner, Lewis, no more Fort Wagner, Lewis.
Only childhood,
expeditions of rest.
You're sayin Mississippi, Lewis,
can't no Mississippi, son,
we need to rest now, Lewis.
I pray she sing you a lullaby, son,
he need to sing me a lullaby, son,
in East Tennessee,
rest now, Lewis, dat be jus fine, son.
