(AFRICAN AMERICANS) The Address of the Representatives of th

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LAUNCHING THE NATION'S FIRST BLACK EPISCOPAL CHURCH (AFRICAN AMERICANS.) "The Address of the Representatives of the African Church," on the front page of Gazette of the United States. 4 pages, 16 x 10 inches, on 2 disbound sheets; moderate foxing. Philadelphia, 7 September 1791

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The text of a letter addressed "To the friends of liberty and religion in the city of Philadelphia," signed in type by Absalom Jones and 8 other leaders of the city's African American community, seeking funds to launch their own congregation. This project met with success the following year with the founding of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, the nation's first black Episcopal church.