By: Destiny Sanders (Class of 2019)
What Love Can Do came to be published in an unconventional way. Mrs.Gayle Nolan was a professor at Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana. One of her students, Teryl Mitchell, decided to enter college in her mid-thirties, and she struggled with grammar, spelling, punctuation, and other basic English principles. Although Teryl did not use English mechanics correctly, she did have a knack for writing stories. After Teryl spoke with Mrs.Nolan about her writing abilities, Teryl explained that her father was also a writer. She explained that he recorded stories that he heard growing up about the effect of slavery on his family. Teryl brought all of her father’s hand-written stories to Mrs.Nolan, so she could read them. Mrs.Nolan was in awe of Mr.Mitchell’s story because she had never read a slave account that had started in Africa. Mrs. Nolan realized that Mr.Mitchell’s story was too good to be forgotten or disregarded, so she copied and edited the manuscript and prepared it to be published and copied for sale. Unfortunately, Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and Mitchell’s original manuscript was destroyed, but luckily Mrs. Nolan still had a photocopy of the manuscript. Although Mrs.Nolan edited the manuscript, she tried very hard to leave everything as Mr.Mitchell had written it because she did not want to change the meaning of his work. These stories show the perseverance and courage of Africans as well as African-Americans and how they learned to love through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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