Steal Away to Jesus

Steal Away to Jesus was originally written as a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Rochester Theological Seminary in April, 1923. A ground-breaking study of the early history of African American Baptists, this excellently documented and beautifully written book outlines the phases that introduced African slaves to Christianizing influences, several distinct periods of missionary endeavors, and the introduction of Baptists to America, with specific details about distinct differences between and among white and black groups following slavery.