Commentary & Analysis by Kamau Makesi-Tehuti

A reprinting of the Religious Instruction of the Negroes and other works by Dr. Reverend Charles Colcock Jones

[What will be the benefit of giving enslaved Afrikans Christianity?] "It is a matter of astonishment, that there should be any objection at all; for the duty of giving religious instruction to our Negroes, and the benefits flowing from it, should be obvious to all. The benefits, we conceive to be incalculably great, and [one] of them [is] there will be greater subordination ...amongst the Negroes (page 52)."