(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) GIBSON EDMUND Two Letters of the Lor

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) GIBSON, EDMUND. Two Letters of the Lord Bishop of London: The First To the Masters and Mistresses in the English Plantations abroad, exhorting them to Encourage and Promote the Instruction of their Negroes in the Christian Faith. . . . 31 pages. Small 8vo, modern cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards with label up the spine. London: Joseph Downing, 1729

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The second edition of this work, first published in 1727. As the title implies, the Lord Bishop was concerned that the Negro slaves being worked to death on the British colonial plantations were not receiving instruction in Christianity.