[19] Ballagh, p. 114.
[20] In 1841, there were 500,000 slaves who were church members, or 1/5 of total number of slaves. 2,000,000 were regular attendants. J. C. Ballagh, p. 114.
[21] Story of the Negro, p. 257.
[22] Story of the Negro, p. 268; Quoted from Ballagh.
[23] Washington, Story of Negro, p. 266.
[24] Quite different from the early experiences of Bryan and Samson, who made adversity serve them, the beginning of Jasper's Christian career was greatly aided by his master, a man with a similar conversion and a similar faith in Christ. Using the Bible as the norma of all truth, in his attack upon current scientific knowledge, Jasper impressed all men by his sincere conviction and devout Christian life. A contemporary said of him: "Jasper made an impression upon his generation, because he was sincerely and deeply in earnest in all that he said. No man could talk with him in private, or listen to him from the pulpit, without being thoroughly convinced of that fact.... He took the Bible in its literal significance; he accepted it as the inspired Word of God; he trusted it with all his heart and soul and mind; he believed nothing that was in conflict with the teachings of the Bible."—See Washington's Story of the Negro, p. 264.
[25] Washington, Story of the Negro, pp. 260-1.
[26] Ibid., pp. 254-5.
[27] Ibid., pp. 255-6.
[28] Earnest, p. 72.