John Jasper
Subtitle: the unmatched Negro philosopher and preacher
By: Hatcher, William E. (William Eldridge), 1834-1912
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; African American clergy; African American Baptists; Baptists; Clergy; Slaves; African American preaching
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: In this biography of John Jasper, Hatcher tells the story of the popular Baptist preacher of Richmond, Virginia. Jasper preached as a slave for twenty-five years and continued preaching after the Emancipation until he died at eighty-nine. His funeral sermons, especially, brought him renown and such was his renown that he built the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church for his congregation of several thousands. His sermons and ideas about a stationary Earth and a moving Sun brought him especial notoriety.
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Transcribed from: John Jasper : the unmatched Negro philosopher and preacher / by William E. Hatcher. New York : Fleming H. Revell Company, c1908. 183 p. : ill., port. ; 20 cm.

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