(RELIGION) TUCKER REV J L The Relation of the Church to the

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(RELIGION.) TUCKER, REV. J. L. The Relation of the Church to the Colored Race. Speech of Rev. J. L. Tucker, D.D. of Jackson Mississippi, Before the Church Congress, held in Richmond, Va., on the 24-27 Oct, 1882 (cover title). 91 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers; spine neatly reinforced with archival paper tape; tipped to the verso of the front cover is an advertisement for this pamphlet as well as the bookplate (designed by James Amos Porter ) of black historian Charles Harris Wesley. Jackson, MISS: Charles Winkley, 1882

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first edition. rare, oclc locating no copies. A Racist defense of slavery claiming, as was usual with such diatribes, that slavery was "God''s will." Tucker''s racist views brought a sharp response from Alexander Crummel, then pastor of St. Luke''s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., entitled "A Defense of the Negro Race of America from the Assaults and Charges of Rev. J. L. Tucker. (1883)."