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Book 1999

The Messenger

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Publisher
Pantheon
Language
English
Published
1999
  • People of Color
  • Historical - U.S
  • Muslims
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Political
  • African Americans
  • Biography
  • Black Muslims

As he lay on his deathbed at the beginning of the bitter-cold winter of 1861, eighty-two-year-old Middleton Pool Jr. had no inkling that the lifestyle he had enjoyed for nearly a century was his invisible, emaciated bedfellow.