(MARYLAND) Bacon Thomas A Sermon Preached at Talbot Count

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(MARYLAND.) Bacon, Thomas. A Sermon Preached at . . . Talbot County, Maryland . . . for the Benefit of a Charity Working School . . . for the Maintenance and Education of Orphans and other Poor Children, and Negroes. 4to, disbound; small manuscript number on title page, tightly cropped with loss to the final lines of publisher's ad on final page. London, 1751

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Includes details on the planned school, and pleads for support: "Many poor White Children have I found (I speak from sad Experience) . . . as Ignorant as the Children of the poor benighted Negroes.--Yet even Negroes ought not to be neglected:--They have souls to be saved as well as others." Concludes with the school's by-laws and a list of donors. 5 copies in ESTC, only 2 in America.