Elias Neau
Elias Neau (1662 – 7 September 1722), born Élie Neau, in Moëze, Saintonge, was a French Huguenot. After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685, he was a Huguenot refugee in New York where he was a prosperous merchant. In 1692, he was captured by a French privateer near Jamaica, and later, as a Protestant, was sentenced to a life sentence as a galley slave then imprisoned in Marseille.[1] He was released in 1698, following the intercession of King William III.[1] In 1704 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel sent him to minister to black slaves in North America. He established the first school that was open to African-Americans in New York City.[2][3] He was then elected to the position of elder of the French church in New York.[1] In 1706, he secured passage of a bill in New York stating that slaves could be catechized.[4][5]
Elias Neau, Elie Naud | |
|---|---|
| Born | Élie Neau 1662 |
| Died | 7 September 1722 |
| Nationality | French |
The Episcopal Church commemorates him as a "witness to the faith" on September 7.
See also
References
Citations
- Wheeler 1999.
- Federal Writers' Project. New York (City) (1938). "New York panorama; a comprehensive view of the metropolis". Internet Archive. Random House. p. 133. Retrieved March 5, 2022.
- Southern, pgs. 36–37
- Wheeler 2005.
- Leone & Potter 1999.
Sources
- Agnew, David Carnegie Andrew (1886). Protestant exiles from France, chiefly in the reign of Louis XIV; or, The Huguenot refugees and their descendants in Great Britain and Ireland (3 ed.). pp. 178–182. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- Arber, Edward (1907). The torments of Protestant slaves in the French king's galleys, and in the dungeons of Marseilles, 1686-1707 A. D. London: Priv. print. pp. 259–270.
- Briggs, Charles, A. (1891). "Elias Neau, the confessor and catechist of negro and indian slaves". Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of America. 3: 103–116. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- Morin, J. (1749). A Short Account of the Life and Sufferings of Elias Neau: Upon the Gallies, and in the Dungeons of Marseilles; for the Constant Profession of the Protestant Religion. Newly Translated from the French, by John Christian Jacobi, Gent. This Treatise was Printed at the End of The New Book of Martyrs, Lately Published by the Recommendation of the Rev. Mr. Bateman, ... London: John Lewis. pp. 1–86. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- Norton, John N. (1859). Life of Bishop Provoost, of New York. New York: General Protestant Episcopal S. School Union, and Church Book Society. pp. 120–127. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- Leone, Mark P.; Potter, Parker B. (1999). Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publisher. p. 89. ISBN 030646067X.
- Southern, Eileen (1997). Music of Black Americans. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-03843-2.
- Wheeler Carlo, Paula (1999). "Neau, Elias". American National Biography (online ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0802386. (subscription required)
- Wheeler Carlo, Paula (2005). Huguenot Refugees in Colonial New York: Becoming American in the Hudson Valley. Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press. p. 61. ISBN 9781845190590.
Further reading
- Whelan, Ruth (2011). "The extraordinary voyage of Elie Neau (1662-1722) naturalized Englishman and French protestant galley slave". Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 29 (4): 499–527.
- Van H. Sauter, Suzanne (14 April 2012). "Elias Neau (c.1622-1722). Also known as Elie Naud: Huguenot, refugee, Ship Captain, Prisoner, Poet, Merchant, Catechist, Teacher". Presentation to the Huguenot Society of North Carolina.