African Americans - Religion - Early works to 1800

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Letters from the Rev. Samuel Davies, &c. Shewing the state of religion (particularly among the Negroes) in Virginia. Likewise an extract of a letter from a gentleman in London to his friend in the country, being some observations on the foregoing.
Davies, Samuel, 1723-1761.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.LVII. [1757]
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Two sermons, preached to a congregation of black slaves , at the parish church of S.P. in the province of Maryland. By an American pastor.
Bacon, Thomas, ca. 1700-1768.Date: 1749
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A letter of the Lord Bishop of London to the masters and mistresses of families in the English plantations abroad : exhorting them to encourage and promote the instruction of their Negroes in the Christian faith.
Gibson, Edmund, 1669-1748.Date: 1727
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Letters from the Rev. Samuel Davies and others : shewing the state of religion in Virginia, South Carolina, &c., particularly among the Negroes.
Davies, Samuel, 1723-1761.Date: 1761
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The capacity of negroes for religious and moral improvement considered : with cursory hints, to proprietors and to government, for the immediate melioration of the condition of slaves in the sugar colonies : to which are subjoined Short and practical discourses to negroes, on the plain and obvious principles of religion and morality / by Richard Nisbet, of the Island of Nevis.
Nisbet, RichardDate: [1789]