A discourse, delivered at the African meeting-house, in Boston, July 14, 1808, in grateful celebration of the abolition of the African slave-trade, by the governments of the United States, Great Britain and Denmark. / By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Pastor of the Congregational Church in Charlestown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.

Contributor:

Vassall, Cyrus.

African Society (Boston, Mass.)

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 15651.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States.

Slavery.

Slave trade.

United States.

Slave trade--United States.

Slave trade--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Slave trade--Denmark.

Antislavery movements--Great Britain.

Antislavery movements.

Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Denmark.

Genre:

Hymns.

Physical Description:

28 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53, Cornhill., 1808.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

"Boston, July 15, 1808. At a meeting of the Committee of the Africans and Descendants of Africans in Boston, voted--that Fortune Symmes, Peter Guest, and Cyrus Vassall, be a committee to wait on the Rev. Dr. Morse, and in the name of "The African Society," to thank him for his discourse delivered before them, at their request, on the subject of the "abolition of the slave-trade," and request a copy for the press. Cyrus Vassall, secretary."--p. [4].

"Notes."--p. [21]-27.

Hymns, p. 27-28.

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