John Chavis
Subtitle: antebellum Negro preacher and teacher
By: by Stephen B. Weeks
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: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African American teachers; Biography; African American missionaries; African American clergy; African American Presbyterians; Clergy; Presbyterian Church
Other titles: Southern workman.; Antebellum Negro preacher.; The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: Article about the life of John Chavis. Licensed by the Presbytery in Lexington, Va. and sent out as a missionary to the blacks and whites in North Carolina, Chavis preached until 1832 when an act was passed in North Carolina to silence colored preachers. Chavis then began a school in Wake, Chatham, Orange and Granville counties where he taught white boys and girls until his death. Many of his pupils went on to distinguished careers and Chavis himself was a friend to numerous prominent white men of his generation.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed January 15, 2003)

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Transcribed from: John Chavis : antebellum Negro preacher and teacher / by Stephen B. Weeks. p. [101]-106 ; 25 cm. Caption title. Originally published in The Southern workman (Feb. 1914). Cover title: An antebellum Negro preacher.

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