John Jea (1773 – after 1817) was an African-American writer, preacher, abolitionist and sailor, best known for his 1811 autobiography The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher. Jea was enslaved from a young age, and after regaining his freedom in the 1790s, he traveled and preached widely. (From Wikipedia)
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The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Compiled and Written by Himself (Portsea, UK: The author, ca. 1811), by John Jea (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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- Jea, John, 1773-: The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Compiled and Written by Himself (Portsea, UK: The author, ca. 1811) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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