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Additional authors

1. Vassall, Cyrus.
2. African Society (Boston, Mass.)
3. Lincoln & Edmands, printer.

Description

1. 28 pages; 21 cm.

Subject

1. Slavery > United States
2. Slavery > United States > Controversial literature
3. Slavery > United States > Controversial literature > 1808
4. Slavery > United States > Sermons
5. Slave trade
6. Slave trade > United States
7. Slave trade > Great Britain
8. Slave trade > Denmark
9. Antislavery movements > Great Britain.
10. Antislavery movements > Massachusetts > Boston

Genre/Form

1. Anti-slave trade literature – United States.
2. Hymns.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4-M (Morse, J. Discourse, delivered at the African meeting-house)

Note

1. "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."--page [4].
2. "Notes."--pages [21]-27.
3. Hymns, pages 27-28.

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
2. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
3. Shaw, R.R. American bibliography

Source (note)

1. of Sidney Lapidus;

Binding (note)

1. Copy in Sc Rare C 15-46 (Lapidus Collection) unbound ; green paper tape repair for spine.

Author

1. Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.

Title

1. 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.

Publisher

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

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 6860
2. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 50953
3. Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 15651

Binding

1. Copy in Sc Rare C 15-46 (Lapidus Collection) unbound ; green paper tape repair for spine. NN

Source

1. Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2015. Copy in Sc Rare C 15-46 (Lapidus Collection), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books
2. Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2018. Copy in Sc Rare D 18-3 (Lapidus Collection), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books

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1. NYPL Digital Collections
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Added author

1. Vassall, Cyrus.
2. African Society (Boston, Mass.)
3. Lincoln & Edmands, printer.
4. Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4-M (Morse, J. Discourse, delivered at the African meeting-house)
2. *KF 1808 (Morse, J. Discourse, delivered at the African meeting-house)
3. Sc Rare C 15-46 (Lapidus Collection)
4. Sc Rare D 18-3 (Lapidus Collection)