Elias Neau

Elias Neau (1662 – 7 September 1722), born Élie Neau, in Moëze, Saintonge, was a French Huguenot who was imprisoned in the Bastille, went to New York where he was a prosperous merchant, and on visiting France in the 1690s was sentenced to a life sentence as a galley slave.[1] After being freed, he became an Anglican catechist to "Negroes and Indians". In 1706, he secured passage of a bill in New York stating that slaves could be catechized.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Elias Neau". American National Biography.
  2. ↑ Huguenot Refugees in Colonial New York: Becoming American in the Hudson Valley Paula Wheeler Carlo; Sussex Academic Press, Apr 1, 2014; page 61
  3. ↑ Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism Mark P. Leone, Parker B. Potter; Springer Science & Business Media, 1999; page 89
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