[Memorial reported to have been laid before the "General council" of the bishops, clergy, and laity, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America held in St. Paul's church, Augusta, Georgia, November 22, 1862].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge (New York, N.Y.)

Series:

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition.

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States.

Slavery.

Slavery and the church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 p. )

Other Title:

[Memorial reported to have been laid before the "General council" of the bishops, clergy, and laity, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America

Summary:

A satire suggesting the revision of the Prayer book so as "to free it from all traces of abolitionism," and the expediency of a "corrected Southern version of the Old and New Testaments." At end of prefatory note: Head-quarters of the Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge.

Notes:

Title from Bartlett.

Captions: p. [1] To churchmen; p. 3, Memorial to the General council of the Protestant Episcopal church in the Confederate States of America.

Title from J.R. Bartlett's The literature of the rebellion, Providence, 1866. no. 3170.

A skit, suggesting the revision of the Prayer book so as "to free it from all traces of abolitionism," and the expediency of a "corrected Southern version of the Old and New Testaments." At end of prefatory note: Head-quarters of the Society for the diffusion of political knowledge.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

Contains:

To churchman.

Memorial to the General council of the Protestant Episcopal church in Confederate States of America.

OCLC:

607394603