The importance of correct religious instruction to the people of colour in the city and liberties of Philadelphia, and the prospect of such being afforded in the establishment of a congregation and place of worship, under the care and direction of John Gloucester, a man of colour, induce the subscribers to contribute to an object so well calculated to promote the present and future happiness of the Africans...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Presbyterian Evangelical Society.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 18376.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gloucester, John, 1776 or 1777-1822.

Gloucester, John.

First African Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.).

African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Religion.

African Americans.

African American churches--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

African American churches.

Religious education--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Religious education.

Religion.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Church history.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1809?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Appeal by the Presbyterian Evangelical Society for funds to establish the First African Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia. Cf. Nash, Gary B. Forging freedom; the formation of Philadelphia's black community, 1720-1840, 1988, p. 199-200, 328.

Erroneously filmed by Readex for Shaw & Shoemaker 18376, Appeal for funds to erect a church for Negroes, which is cited in Nash p. 328 as having at least 38 pages and dated 1809.

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