Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White

by George White and Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Book Overview

John Jea (b. 1773) and George White (1764-c.1830) were two of the earliest African-American autobiographers, writing nearly a half-century before Frederick Douglass published his famous narrative chronicling his experiences as a slave, a freedman, and an ardent abolitionist. Jea and White represent an earlier generation of African-Americans that were born into slavery but granted their freedom shortly after American independence, in the 1780s. Both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031229445X
• ISBN13: 9780312294458
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.1"