George Liele

LIFE AND LETTERS

The Life of George Liele

The Letters of George Liele

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING

Primary Sources

• • Liele, George. “An Account of Several Baptist Churches, Consisting Chiefly of Negro Slaves: Particularly of One at Kingston, in Jamaica; and Another at Savannah in Georgia (1793).” Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-speaking World of the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Vincent Carretta. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2004.
  • Liele, George. “The Covenant of the Anabaptist Church: Began in America 1777, in Jamaica, Dec. 1783.” 1796. British Baptist material, Angus Library of Regents Park College, Oxford. Reel 1, no. 14. Publication (Historical Commission, Southern Baptist Convention), MF # 4265.
  • Liele, George, and Andrew Bryan. “Letters from Pioneer Black Baptists.” Afro-American Religious History: A Documentary Witness. Ed. Milton C. Sernett. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1985.

Selected Research Literature

• • Ballew, Christopher Brent and Moses Baker. The Impact of African-American Antecedents on the Baptist Foreign Missionary Movement, 1782-1825. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.
  • Brooks, Walter H. A History of Negro Baptist Churches in America. Washington, D.C.: Press of R.L. Pendelton, 1910. Copyright, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004.
  • Frey, Sylvia. “Cultural Migrations: A Time- and -Space Outline of Black Atlantic Evangelical Protestantism.” African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds: Consciousness and Imagination. Ed.Klaus Benesch and Geneviève Fabre. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.
  • Gayle, Clement H. L. George Liele: Pioneer Missionary to Jamaica. Kingston: Jamaica Baptist Union, 1982.
  • Little, Thomas. “George Liele and the Rise of Independent Black Baptist Churches in the Lower South and Jamaica.” Slavery & Abolition 16.2 (1995): 188-204.
  • Pugh, Alfred Lane. Pioneer Preachers in Paradise: The Legacies of George Liele, Prince Williams and Thomas Paul in Jamaica, the Bahamas and Haiti. Lauderhill, FA: Paradise Pub., 2003.
  • Pulis, John W. “Bridging Troubled Waters: Moses Baker, George Liele, and the African American Diaspora to Jamaica.” Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World. Ed. John W. Pulis. New York: Garland, 1999.
  • Shannon, David T., Julia Frazier White, and Deborah Van Broekhoven. George Liele’s Life and Legacy: An Unsung Hero. Macon, GA: Mercer UP, 2013.

ONLINE RESOURCES AND LINKS

Biographies

• • Neely, Alan. “Liele, George,” in Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, ed. Gerald H. Anderson (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1998), 400-1. Rpt.  in History of Missiology. Boston: Boston University, n.d.  https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/l-m/liele-george-c-1750-1828/#:~:text=First%20African%20American%20to%20be,of%20his%20master%2C%20Henry%20Sharp.
  • Morrison, Doreen. “George Liele and the Ethiopian Baptist Church: The First Credible Baptist Missionary Witness to the World.” Birmingham: Doreen Morrison. http://bwa-baptist-heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Liele-Morrison.pdf

General Interest and Educational Sources

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