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Necessary Fried Chicken-An online book in progress

Click on the "Welcome" button and join Reverend John DuBois, Cotton Gin Maker, Planter, Writer, and Methodist minister, as he gazes back over the years and remembers traveling to Alabama from South Carolina as a young man in 1820. Relive with him the joys and challenges of settling in a new and beautiful land fraught with ironies and sweetness, troubles and healing. Hear also about the early days of Methodism in Charleston and Alabama where missions to educate and bring religion to slaves were not always met with enthusiasm. From the soon to be published book, Necessary Fried Chicken.

In the Fall of 1998, I discovered that my great-great-grandfather, Reverend John DuBois, had written a series of articles concerning "Incidents and Characters in the History of Methodism in South Carolina and Alabama." These first appeared in serial form in the Alabama Christian Advocate in the early 1880's. I published some of these articles on the Internet as a part of some mail lists maintained by Rootsweb. After receiving over 2000 e-mails about these articles and encouraged by some of my fellow "Wellspringers", I decided to publish these in hard copy format. Named Necessary Fried Chicken after a chapter that Rev. John wrote on how Methodist ministers must always have fried chicken to eat at camp meetings, this book is now available in spiral-bound form, and soon will be available in hard cover. But you can read portions of it online.

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