The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States is a four part book written as an appeal to slave owners and ministers to provide religious instruction to slaves. The book contains many interesting facts about the life at plantations written by a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, missionary, and planter. The first part of book gives a history of the African slave trade.

Charles Colcock Jones Sr. (1804 – 1863) was a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, missionary, and planter of Liberty County, Georgia.