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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CHAPBOOKS. Negro Piety, Exemplified in the Life and Death of Cornelius, an Assistant of the Moravian Missions in the island of St. Thomas * The Happy Negro. Two chapbooks, 12, 4 pp, 12mo, lacking the original wrappers; some discoloration and light wear. London: Kershaw, circa 1830's-1840's
The first title relates the story of a West Indian who joined the Moravian Mission in St. Thomas, and was converted. The second tells the tale of an English traveler in New York who comes upon a slave working in a field. He asks him how he feels about being a slave. The slave replies that he and his wife and children are happy and well taken care of. Two happy Negroes it would seem, the latter however is no doubt fanciful.
