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Tremenda : The dreadful sound with which the wicked are to be thunderstruck. In a sermon delivered unto a great assembly, in which was present, a miserable African, just going to be executed for a most inhumane and uncommon murder. At Boston, May 25th. 1721. To which is added, a conference between a minister and the prisoner, on the day before his execution. [One line from Deuteronomy].

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Contributor:
Green, Bartholomew, 1667-1732, printer.
Gray, Benjamin, d. 1751, bookseller.
Edwards, John, d. 1725, bookseller.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Executions and executioners--Massachusetts--Boston.
Executions and executioners.
Crime--Massachusetts--Boston.
Crime.
African American criminals--Massachusetts--Boston.
African American criminals.
Hanno, Joseph, d. 1721.
Hanno, Joseph.
Genre:
Execution sermons -- 1721.
Physical Description:
1 online resource ([2],40p. )
Other Title:
Tremenda
Place of Publication:
Boston : Printed by B. Green, for B. Gray & J. Edwards, & sold at their shops, 1721.
Notes:
Caption title: The dreadful sound.
Attributed to Mather by Evans and Holmes.
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
Cited in:
Evans, 2251
Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, 407
English Short Title Catalog, W28376.
OCLC:
511166461

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