(AFRICA) COPPIN BISHOP L J Observations of Persons and Thing

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(AFRICA.) COPPIN, BISHOP L. J. Observations of Persons and Things in South Africa. Copious illustrations. 205; 210 pages, two parts in one volume. 8vo, original tan cloth, lettered in black; covers darkened with a couple of stains on the upper board. Philadelphia: A. M. E. Book Concern, [1905]

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first edition and very scarce, OCLC locates only one copy at the Schomburg Center. Coppin''s "Observations" are not restricted to religious themes. The book is rich in local folklore and customs as well as observations on the conflict then raging in South Africa. Levi Jenkins Coppin (1848-1924), clergyman and educator, was born free in Frederick Town, Maryland, the birthplace of Frederick Douglass. In 1900, Coppin and his wife Fanny left for South Africa, where he became the first resident bishop. Arriving in the midst of the Boer War, the Coppin''s stay was made al the more difficult and dangerous by the British who saw their efforts to educate the natives as a threat.