Slavery's heroes
Subtitle: George Liele and the Ethiopian Baptists of Jamaica 1783-1865
By: Doreen Morrison
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liele Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781500657574
Subjects: Baptists; Biography; Slavery; History
Description: "Coinciding with both the 230 year anniversary of the establishing of the first Baptist Church in Jamaica by the Ethiopian Baptist Society and it's brutal demise almost 150 years ago at Morant Bay, 'Slavery's Heroes' documents its pioneers; the men and women who led by George Liele, advocated for a nation from enslavement to emancipation and beyond. This work offers insight into a people, a faith and a movement which demonstrated boldness, bravery and self-sacrifice, as it sought to achieve freedom for generations of people it knew it would never meet."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Poem: When two worlds collide; title: Religion in Jamaica before the arrival of the Ethiopian Baptists; title: George Liele - American beginnings; title: Such promising beginnings; title: The war begins against the Ethiopian Baptists; title: The response of the Ethiopean Baptist leadership; title: A season of violent persecution and resistance (1826-1832); title: The BMS led response (1832-1846); title: The final roar of the Ethiopean Baptist movement in St. Thomas-in-the-East (1865); title: The continuing legacy of Liele's Ethiopian Baptists.