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Octavia Victoria Rogers was born in Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she lived in slavery until the Emancipation. Like millions of freed blacks, she had a deep yearning for learning and, eventually, at Atlanta University, she studied to be a teacher. This steady young woman was as serious about being a stalwart Christian as she was about being a sterling teacher. While still living in Oglethorpe, she had joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was led by the legendary Bishop Henry McNeal Turner. Not unlike many of her contemporaries, Rogers saw teaching as a form of worship and Christian service. Her first teaching job was in Montezuma, Georgia. There, in 1874 she married another teacher at this school, A.E.P. Albert, who later became an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon after their marriage, the Albert's moved to Houma, Louisiana, where she began conducting interviews with men and women once enslaved. These interviews were the raw material for what became her gifted collection of narratives, The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Others Slaves. Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert did not live to see The House of Bondage reach the public. It was shortly after her death in 1890, that the New Orleans-based Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper the “Southwestern Christian Advocate” serialized the work from January to December 1890. Reference: An Encyclopedia of African American Christian Heritage by Marvin Andrew McMickle Judson Press, Copyright 2002 ISBN 0-817014-02-0 to be a Writer
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