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Details

Additional authors

1. African School (Parsippany, N.J.). Board of Directors
2. Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of New York and New Jersey

Description

1. 76 pages; 24 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

1. African School (Parsippany, N.J.)
2. African Society of Newark
3. Bible. -- Sermons
4. African Americans -- Education
5. Black people -- Education -- United States
6. African Americans -- Missions
7. African Americans -- Religion
8. Black people in the Bible
9. Black race
10. Slavery and the church
11. Enslaved persons -- Religious life -- United States
12. Sermons, American -- New York (State) -- New York

Genre/Form

1. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Call number

1. Sc Rare D 16-14 (Lapidus Collection)

Language

1. English

Note

1. "It is due to the respectable citizens of Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Hudson, Newark, and New-Brunswick, to notice, that the sermon, at the direction of the board, was, with slight alterations, preached in all those places, and collections taken up for the benefit of the African School."--Verso of title page.
2. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-I⁴ [K]²
3. "Notes," including "Distinguished Africans and mulattoes now living in the United States" and "An account of the African School," p. [37]-72.
4. "Postscript. The sermon has been so long delayed in the press, that I have an opportunity to subjoin a notice of the African Society of Newark."--p. 73-76.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
2. Shaw, R.R. American bibliography

Source (note)

1. of Sidney Lapidus;

Provenance (note)

1. inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Griffin, Edward Dorr, 1770-1837, author.

Title

1. A plea for Africa : a sermon preached October 26, 1817, in the First Presbyterian Church in the city of New-York, before the Synod of New-York and New-Jersey, at the request of the Board of Directors of the African School established by the Synod / by Edward D. Griffin, D. D., Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Newark, New-Jersey.

Publisher

1. New York : Gould, printer, Chatham-St., 1817.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 4366
2. Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 40956

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.973-G (accession no. B389716) inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Source

1. Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2016. Copy in Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections Material

Added author

1. African School (Parsippany, N.J.). Board of Directors.
2. Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of New York and New Jersey.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

LCCN

1. 11025879

Research call number

1. Sc Rare D 16-14 (Lapidus Collection)
2. Sc Rare 326.973-G (Griffin, E. D. Plea for Africa)
3. IEC p.v. 1, no. 4