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Primary Works

	Colonial Slavery: Defence of the Baptist Missionaries from the Charges of Inciting the Late Rebellion in Jamaica; In a Discussion Between the Rev. W. Knibb and Mr. P. Barthwick at the Assembly Rooms, Bath. December 15 1832. London: Tourist Office, 1832.
	William Knibb [1803-1845], Jamaica Speech of the Rev. William Knibb, Before the Baptist Missionary Society, In Exeter Hall, April 28th 1842 to which be prefixed, a Letter to W.B. Gurney, Esq., Treasurer of the Society, 2nd edn. London: G and J. Dyer, 1842. Hbk. pp.131. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	The Spiritual Prospects of Africa: A Sermon by Rev. William Knibb at the Eagle St. Chapel, Red Lion Square. August 17, 1834. London: 1834.
	"Extract of a letter from Mr. Wm. Knibb to a friend in Bristol, dated October 16th; In a Letter to the Secretary, after stating the particulars of this distressing event, Mr. K. adds," The Baptist Magazine 18.1 (Jan. 1826): 46-48. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	"Jamaica," The Baptist Magazine 20.2 (Feb. 1828): 94-96. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	"Kingston," The Baptist Magazine 20.5 (May 1828): 236-237. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	"Very latest intelligence," The Baptist Magazine 21.3 (March 1829): 131-134. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	"Jamaica," The Baptist Magazine 22.6 (June 1830): 259-262. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	William Knibb, "Baptist Intelligence - Foreign: Jamaica," The Baptist Reporter, ns 1.6 (June 1844): 211. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Ernest A. Payne, "William Knibb to Charles Stovel," Baptist Quarterly 14.3 (July 1951): 114-116. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Secondary Works

	Anonymous, "Baptist Intelligence - Foreign: Kettering, Jamaica," The Baptist Reporter, ns 1.7 (July 1844): 247. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Anonymous, "Death of Wlliam Knibb," The Baptist Reporter, ns 3.1 (Jan. 1846): 64. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Anonymous, "Wlliam Knibb, the Negro Liberator," The Baptist Reporter, ns 3.2 (Feb. 1846): 76-80. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Basil Amey, "Baptist Missionary Society Radicals," Baptist Quarterly 26.8 (October 1976): 363-376. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	D.W. Bebbington, "The Baptist Conscience in the Nineteenth Century," Baptist Quarterly 34.1 (January 1991): 13-24. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Gordon Arthur Catherall, "Freedom with Involvrment," Foundations 11.4 (Oct.-Dec. 1968): 343-361.
	Gordon Arthur Catherall, William Knibb: Freedom Fighter. Chichester: Janey Publishing Co., 1972.
	Gordon A. Catherall, "An Island of Discontent," Baptist Quarterly 27.1 (January 1977): 27-33. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Gordon A. Catherall, "Bristol College and the Jamaican Mission: A Caribbean Contribution," Baptist Quarterly 35.6 (April 1994): 294-302. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	G.A. Catherall, "The Native Baptist Church," Baptist Quarterly 24.2 (April 1971): 65-73. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	John Clarke, "Baptist Intelligence - Foreign: Fernando Po," The Baptist Recorder, ns 1.8 (August 1844): 283-284. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	John Clifford, ed., The English Baptists, Who They Are, And What They Have Done. Being Eight Lectures, Historical and Descriptive,given by General Baptists Ministers in London, During the Past Winter. London: E. Marlborough & Co., 1881. Hbk. pp.180. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	D.J. East, "William Knibb," The Baptist Magazine 88.4 (April 1896): 157-164. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	E. Escobar & J. Driver, Christian Mission and Social Justice. Kitchener,ONT: Herald Press, 1962.
	J.H. Hinton [1791-1873], Memoir of William Knibb, Missionary in Jamaica, 2nd edn. London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1849. pp.552. pdf
	D. Katterns, The Rev.William Knibb: A Lecture Delivered in the School Room of Mare Street Chapel, Hackney. Tuesday Devember 19th 1865. London: Elliot Stock, 1866.
	Charles Kirtland [1811-1885], The Homes of the Baptist Missionary Society. London: Alexander & Shepheard, 1885. Hbk. pp.94. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	R.A.L. Knight, William Knibb. Missionary and Emancipator. London: The Carey Press, [1924]. Hbk. pp.62. pdf [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
	F. Townley Lord, Achievement: A Short History of the Baptist Missionary Society: 1792-1942. London: The Kingsgate Press, 1937. Hbk. pp.150. pdf [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
	Ernest A.Payne, Freedom in Jamaica. London: The Carey Press, 1944.
	Ernest Alexander Payne [1902-1980], The Great Succession: Leaders of the Baptist Missionary Society during the Nineteenth Century. London: Carey Press, [1938]. Hbk. pp.160. pdf [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
	Ernest Alexander Payne [1902-1980], Freedom in Jamaica. Some Chapters in the Story of the Baptist Missionary Society, 2nd edition. London: The Carey Press, 1933, 1946. Pbk. pp.120. pdf [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
	Ernest A. Payne, "Baptist Work in Jamaica," Baptist Quarterly 7.1 (January 1934): 20-26. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Ernest A. Payne, "William Knibb to Charles Stovel," Baptist Quarterly 14.3 (July 1951): 114-116. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Patricia T. Rooke, "Evangelical Missionary Rivalry in the British West Indies: Religious Altruism and Economic Reality," Baptist Quarterly 29.8 (October 1982): 341-355. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Henry Wheeler Robinson [1872-1945], The Life and Faith of the Baptists, rev. edn.. London: The Kingsgate Press, 1946. pp.158. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	H.O. Russell, "Indigenous Mission: The Jamaica Baptist Missionary Society," Baptist Quarterly 25.2 (April 1973): 86-93. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Horace O. Russell, "Baptists and Liberation," Baptist Quarterly 33.7 (July 1990): 326-330. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	K.R.M. Short, "Jamaican Christian Missions and the Great Slave Rebellion of 1831-2," Journal of Ecclesiastical History 27.1 (1976): 57-72.
	I. Knibb Sibley, The Baptists of Jamaica. Kingston: Thr Jamaica Baptist Union, 1965.
	Mrs John James Smith, William Knibb: Missionary in Jamaica. A Memoir. London: Alexander & Shepheard, 1896. Hbk. pp.134. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Brian Stanley, "Knibb, William," Gerald H. Anderson, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, MI: Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0802846807. p.371.
	Brian Stanley, "Nineteenth-Century Liberation Theology: Nonconformist Missionaries and Imperialism," Baptist Quarterly 32.1 (January 1987): 5-18. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Brian Stanley, The History of the Baptist Missionary Society: 1792-1992. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1992.
	Ronald W. Thomson, Heroes of the Baptist Church. London: The Kingsgate Press, 1941. pp.158. pdf [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
	M. Turner, "THe Bishop of Jamaica and Slave Instruction," Journal of Ecclesiastical History 25.4 (1975): 362-378.
	Mary Turner [1931-], Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society, 1787-1834, new edn. Barbados: The Press, University of the West Indies. 1998.
	A.C. Underwood, A History of the English Baptists. London: Baptist Union Publications, 1947.
	Philip Wright, Knibb "The Notorious": Slaves' Missionary, 1803-1845. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1973.