(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) Gibson Edmund Two Letters to the

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Gibson, Edmund. Two Letters . . . 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 boards; minor foxing, minimal dampstaining on top edge, inked inscription on final page. London, 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 slaves on the British colonial plantations were not receiving proper instruction in Christianity. European Americana 729/103; Sabin 27312.