Charles Colcock Jones
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Charles Colcock Jones, Sr. (1804 —1863) was a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, missionary, and planter of Liberty County, Georgia. While in the North, Jones agonized over the morality of owning slaves, but he returned to Liberty County to become a planter and a missionary to slaves. He served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Savannah, Georgia (1831—32), Professor of church history and polity at Columbia Theological Seminary, Columbia,...