Chapter 19—African-American Outreach
- Chapter 1—Who Was Ellen G. White?
- Chapter 2—The Early Years
- Chapter 3—The Advent Message
- Chapter 4—Marriage of James White and Ellen Harmon
- Chapter 5—Beginning to Publish
- Chapter 6—The Move to Battle Creek
- Chapter 7—The “Great Controversy” Vision
- Chapter 8—The Home in Battle Creek
- Chapter 9—The Health Reform Vision
- Chapter 10—The Work Expands
- Chapter 11—Battle Creek College
- Chapter 12—Writing and Traveling
- Chapter 13—Death of James White
- Chapter 14—Ellen White Visits Europe
- Chapter 15—The Great Controversy and Patriarchs and Prophets
- Chapter 16—Called to Australia
- Chapter 17—The Avondale School
- Chapter 18—Medical Work Begun
- Chapter 19—African-American Outreach
- Chapter 20—Return to the United States
- Chapter 21—Busy Closing Years
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Chapter 19—African-American Outreach
In 1891 Ellen White appealed to church leaders to begin educational and evangelistic work on behalf of the Black race in America’s South. Three years later, one of her sons, James Edson White, built a Mississippi River steamboat and used it for about a decade as a floating mission for Blacks in Mississippi and Tennessee. In 1895 and 1896 she wrote articles in the Review and Herald continuing to urge that efforts be made for Blacks in the South, and from time to time she sent messages of counsel and encouragement to workers in that field. She gave strong support to the establishment of Oakwood College, in Huntsville, Alabama, which was founded for the purpose of educating young African-Americans. In 1904 she gave a speech to its students and teachers, declaring, “It was God’s purpose that the school should be placed here.” Throughout the remaining years of her life, she maintained a deep interest and concern for the church work among Blacks in the southern States.EGWBB 8.4