Charles Colcock Jones, Sr. (1804-1863), the personification of the Christian slaveholder, was born into the slaveholding oligarchy of Liberty County, GA. Educated in the richly textured piety of the Midway Church and the seminaries at Andover and Princeton, he writhed in the moral torments of the slave system. He tried to resolve this inner conflict by forming a Christian church among the slaves of his native county as a model for the entire South. Although sometimes professor of church history at Presbyterian Columbia Theological Seminary and secretary of the Board of Domestic Missions of the Presbyterian denomination (Old School), he was most famous as founder of and chief publicist for the Association for the Religious Instruction of the Negro in Liberty County, GA. "Jones, Charles Colcock, Sr. " The Encyclopedia of Religion in the South.
From the description of Observations on the last hours of the Revd. Charles C. Jones, D.D., who died at Arcadia, Liberty County, Georgia, March 6th, 1863, 1863. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 298440010
