(RELIGION) Charles C Jones The Religious Instruction of the

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(RELIGION.) Charles C. Jones. The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States. xiii, 277 pages. 12mo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear, rebacked; moderate dampstaining and foxing, lacking rear free endpaper; modern owner's inked inscription on front free endpaper. Savannah, GA, 1842

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First of three editions. Charles Colcock Jones was a Georgia plantation owner as well as a Presbyterian minister. He here insists upon the moral obligation to teach Christianity to the enslaved, without questioning the morality of slavery. The first hundred pages are devoted to a history of American slavery. Afro-Americana 5378; Howes J193; Sabin 36470; not in Blockson. No others traced at auction since 1963.