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The two charters of the Society for Advancing the Christian Faith in the British West India Island and elsewhere,within the diocese of Jamaica and of Barbadoes, and the Leeward Islands and in the Mauritius. 32 pages. 8vo, original marbled wrappers with printed label on the front cover. London, 1836
An account of the charitable fund originally set up by Robert Boyle in 1691 for the Propagation of the Christian Religion amongst Infidels. This however was meant more for the "indians" of New England. The fund was re-instituted in 1791, after the American Revolution, and again 1835, more specifically to educate the Negro Slaves in the British colonies, which at that time numbered a half million.
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