Background
Roberts was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, and graduated from Furman University, a Baptist school in Greenville, South Carolina.
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Issachar Jacox Roberts
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Education
Furman University.
Career
Roberts was the only Baptist known to have influenced Hong Xiuquan (洪秀全, Wade-Giles: Hung Hsiu-ch"üan), the Hakka who led the Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864) against the Qing Dynasty which caused millions of deaths. Hong spent two months studying with Roberts at Canton (Guangzhou) in 1847. In 1860, Roberts left Canton for the Taiping capital at Nanjing.
He left in January 1862 on board the British gunboat Renard following a dispute with Hong, accusing him of murder, and was thereafter fiercely critical of the Taiping.
