Off for the Promised Land
- Title
- Off for the Promised LandSee all items with this value
- Type
- Newspaper clippingSee all items with this value
- Creator
- The Intelligencer
- Date
- August 14, 1873See all items with this value
- Description
- This article, reprinted verbatim across multiple newspapers, describes the founders of the Kingdom of the Happy Land as followers of a "negro preacher" who convinced them to sell all their possessions. The group is portrayed as gullible and easily manipulated. The article mentions they are traveling "the Buncombe Road" toward a destination 160 miles away but does not specify the location.
- Format
- PNG image
- Language
- en-US
- Place
- Anderson, South Carolina
- Item sets
- Kingdom of the Happyland
- Site pages
- Nineteenth Century Perspectives
