What Love Can Do

<p>Henry Goody Johns was the eldest son of a beautiful young slave girl from East Central Africa and her Louisiana Master. Given the choice by his father to pass for white or to remain a slave Johns chose to forever identify with his black mother and siblings later becoming a pastor to his community after the Emancipation Proclamation.<br /><br />This volume of stories about Henry Goody Johns who taught his people What Love Can Do is oral history at its best. It has been passed down from a generation of an enslaved people who came to learn that prejudice and hatred is a greater form of slavery than bondage itself.<br /><br />This memoir as written by Arthur Mitchell a descendent of slaves on the Jons Plantation has been preserved as closely as possible to its original form.</p>