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Jonathan Sassi
 

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Affiliation: Associate Professor, College of Staten Island
Office phone: 718-982-2879
E-Mail:sassi@mail.csi.cuny.edu

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Field of Scholarship

Early American republic, American religious history, antislavery and race

Selected Publications

A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy, Religion in America Series (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

"The First Party Competition and Southern New England's Public Christianity," Journal of the Early Republic 21 (2001): 261-299. Awarded the 2002 Ralph D. Gray prize for best article in vol. 21 of the JER.

"'This whole country have their hands full of Blood this day': Transcription and Introduction of an Antislavery Sermon Manuscript Attributed to the Reverend Samuel Hopkins," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 112.1 (June 2004): 29-92.

"Africans in the Quaker Image: Anthony Benezet, African Travel Narratives, and Revolutionary-Era Antislavery," Journal of Early Modern History, 10:1-2 (2006): 95-130.

 
 
 
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