A New 'Religion'
- Title
- A New 'Religion'See all items with this value
- Type
- Newspaper clippingSee all items with this value
- Creator
- The Daily Bristol Times and Mirror
- Date
- September 23, 1873See all items with this value
- Description
- This newspaper article from Bristol, England, portrays the Kingdom of the Happy Land founders as gullible followers led astray by Reverend Bobo, a manipulative "carpetbagger." It falsely claims the group was journeying to Tennessee and that Reverend Bobo had convinced his followers to commit murder. The article casts the surrounding white community as heroes who rescued the purported victim, further reinforcing the stereotype of Black people as easily exploited and in need of white intervention. The narrative aims to discredit Bobo's leadership and frame the group’s spiritual journey as dangerous and misguided.
- Format
- PNG image
- Language
- en-US
- Place
- Bristol, England
- Publisher
- Newspapers.com
- Item sets
- Kingdom of the Happyland
- Site pages
- Nineteenth Century Perspectives
- Media
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"A New 'Religion'"