The religious instruction of the Negroes in the United States
By: Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863
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: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Religion; Missions; History; Education; Church and education; Christian education; Slavery and the church
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Jones's The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States (1842) argues that it is morally essential for white ministers and slave owners to attend to the spiritual needs of slaves and free blacks. He traces the history of slavery and summarizes the missionary and religious efforts offered by each state and denomination from 1620. Jones attributes the slave's lack of virtue on his circumstances. He claims that it is necessary for his ills to be addressed by whites through spiritual means, and asserts the benefits of religious education. In the last part of the book Jones exhorts whites and the church at large to carry out programs of religious instruction and proposes recommendations for their practical implementation.
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Transcribed from: The religious instruction of the Negroes in the United States / by Charles C. Jones. Savannah : Thomas Purse, 1842. xiii, 277 p. ; 20 cm.

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Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Historical sketch of the religious instruction of the Negroes from their first introduction into the country in 1620 to the year 1842; title: Pt. 2. The moral and the religious condition of the Negroes in the United States; title: Pt. 3. Obligations of the Church of Christ to attempt the improvement of the moral and religious condition of the Negroes in the United States, by affording them the Gospel; title: Pt. 4. Means and plans for promoting and securing the religious instruction of the Negroes in the United States.