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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].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
- 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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