A History of African American Christianity, week 2

Black Christians in the Revolutionary Era:

  • Evangelism of Black Americans in the 1740s.

  • First publications by African Americans: Christian testimonies of Briton Hammon and Jupiter Hammon in 1760.

  • In subsequent decades: the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, the church-starting of David George, the narrative of Olaudah Equiano