The hero of this book did what he could to thwart his future biographer, and it is a credit to Karl Jacoby’s scholarly detective work that we know anything about William Henry Ellis’ amazing ...

Eliseo began life not on a Mexican hacienda but across the border on a Texas plantation where he was born into slavery as William ... book isn’t a fast read. There are times when the Ellis ...

FOR nearly thirty years Mr. Cumberland has been headmaster of William Ellis School at Gospel Oak ... some of his ideals in an interesting little book which he calls “Association.” ...