"With slaves, Jackson not only followed the Golden Rule—'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'—in 1855 he organized a Sunday-school class in Lexington solely for blacks. He became a spiritual teacher for scores of slaves and freedmen as well as t
he best friend many of them ever had." ~
James I. Robertson, Jr., Ph.D., Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech (one of eight selected from the university's 2,200 faculty members) and the recipient of every major award given in the field of Civil War history.
"With slaves, Jackson not only followed the Golden Rule—'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'—in 1855 he organized a Sunday-school class in Lexington solely for blacks. He became a spiritual teacher for scores of slaves and freedmen as well as the best friend many of them ever had." ~ James I. Robertson, Jr., Ph.D., Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech (one of eight selected from the university's 2,200 faculty members) and the recipient of every major award given in the field of Civil War history.
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