Black Missionary in an Age of Enslavement

The Life and Times of George Liele

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The Life and Times of George Liele

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Much discussion of Protestant Christianity and its missions in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is focused on the work of English missionary William Carey and American Missionaries Adoniram and Ann Judson, who travelled to India in 1793 and 1813. This book reframes this conventional understanding of mission studies and outreach by exploring the legacy and life of the enslaved American Baptist George Liele (1750–1825)—the first African American ordained to the Christian ministry.
Black Missionary in an Age of Enslavement looks at Christianity and mission through the life and times of Liele, highlighting his travels as an itinerant preacher in South Carolina, Georgia, Jamaica (and through his protégé there, David George), Nova Scotia, Sierra Leone and, toward the end of his life, England. Liele knew what it meant to be both slave and free. In Jamaica, as in Savannah, he was imprisoned for his faith and saw the survival of the church as pivotal. Liele was a man of firsts: the first African American ordained to the Christian ministry (May 20, 1775), and the first missionary to take the Christian gospel outside the United States. It was Liele, more than any other missionary, who initiated the practice of offering education to native people both enslaved and free. With the hymnal in one hand and the Bible in the other, Liele taught the enslaved and free that they were destined for liberation.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. Liberation
Chapter 2. Theologian of Hope
Chapter 3. Patriarch of Native Baptists
Chapter 4. The Coming of Missionaries
Chapter 5. The Man and His Legacy
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Product details

Published 06 Aug 2024
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 216
ISBN 9781538180075
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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