prize essay of 1786 is a reminder of the evangelical commitment to the anti-slavery cause, and the editor has included the important testimony of former slaves in the form of Olaudah Equiano's conversion narrative, Richard Allen's defence of African Americans in 1794 and a fascinating selection from the poems of Phillis Wheatley.Most -probably all -of these documents may be consulted electronically, particularly through the admirable Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Nonetheless, it is helpful to have them assembled between one set of covers, especially with the simultaneous publication of a paperback edition, and this volume will be a convenient resource for teachers and students. Moreover, by illuminating the range and variety of evangelical thought, some of it relatively unfamiliar, it should prove a stimulus to further investigation into the history and mindset of early evangelicalism.
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