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The life, history, and unparalleled sufferings of John Jea, the African preacher [electronic resource] / compiled and written by himself.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

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General Note:
Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc. and Natalia Smith.
This electronic edition has been transcribed from a photocopy supplied by the Rare Books Collection, Columbia University.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.
Title from electronic title page.
Original Version Note:
Transcribed from photocopy of: The life, history, and unparalleled sufferings of John Jea, the African preacher / compiled and written by himself. Portsea, England : printed for the author, [1811?] 96 p. "Williams, Printer and Book-binder, 143 Queen Street, Portsea."--Page 96.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.
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Subject: Jea, John, 1773-
African American clergy > Biography.
African American Methodists > Clergy > Biography.
African American preaching.
African Americans > Biography.
African Americans > Religion.
Free African Americans > Biography.
Slavery > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century.
Enslaved persons' writings, American > New York (State) > New York.
Enslaved persons > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Genre: Slave narratives.