Hodges, Ed., Black Itinerants Of The Gospel - The Narratives Of John Jea And George White

Abstract

The history of African-American evangelical religion is rich in pathos and heroism, and the lives of the two itinerants in this edited account, John Jea (b. 1773) and George White (1764-1836), are representative of the early African-American evangelical religious experience in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The lives of both men are set in the context of the post-revolutionary era and the waning days of slavery in New York and New Jersey. The narrative accounts are both insightful and emotionally moving to read.