A number of biographies of black 18th-century evangelicals have been published in the last decade. Chief among these are John Saillant's Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833; Richard Newman's Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers; and Vincent Carretta's Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. In his latest book, Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage, Carretta explores the life and work of a leading African American poet.
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