Avenues Leading to Crime and Blackie of the North Woods, His Life and Conversion

[Raleigh, N.C., 1922. About very good.. 32pp. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Uniformly toned, minor chipping, faint marginal stain to lower corner throughout. A scarce autobiographical account of Evangelist Moses Laflaver Cummings (1876-1963), beginning with his life of crime in Florida through his conversion to Christianity. Cummings served as a Free Will Baptist minister in North Carolina for over forty years, and was known by the nickname "Blackie of the North Woods" after ministering for some years in Canada and the northwestern United States. The present work includes two photographs of a "Convict Camp in Florida," where Cummings spent some time in jail in the late-19th century.