Research Catalog

Title

A discourse, delivered at the African meeting-house, in Boston, July 14, 1808, in grateful celebration of the abolition of the African slave-trade, by the governments of the United States, Great Britain and Denmark / by Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Pastor of the Congregational Church in Charlestown.

Author

Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.

Publication

Boston : Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53, Cornhill, 1808.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vassall, Cyrus.
• African Society (Boston, Mass.)
• Lincoln & Edmands, printer.

Description

28 pages; 21 cm.

Subjects

• Slave trade
• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature
• Slave trade > Denmark
• Hymns
• Slavery > United States > Sermons
• Antislavery movements > Great Britain
• Slave trade > Great Britain
• Slave trade > United States
• Antislavery movements > Massachusetts > Boston
• Anti-slave trade literature > United States
• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature > 1808

Genre/Form

• Anti-slave trade literature – United States.
• Hymns.

Note

• "Boston, July 15, 1808. At a meeting of the Committee of the Africans and Descendants of Africans in Boston, voted--that Fortune Symmes, Peter Guest, and Cyrus Vassall, be a committee to wait on the Rev. Dr. Morse, and in the name of 'The African Society,' to thank him for his discourse delivered before them, at their request, on the subject of the 'abolition of the slave-trade,' and request a copy for the press. Cyrus Vassall, secretary."--page [4].
• "Notes."--pages [21]-27.
• Hymns, pages 27-28.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• Shaw, R.R. American bibliography

Source (note)

• of Sidney Lapidus;

Binding (note)

• Copy in Sc Rare C 15-46 (Lapidus Collection) unbound ; green paper tape repair for spine.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.4-M (Morse, J. Discourse, delivered at the African meeting-house)

OCLC

• 3406665
• NYPGR3406665-B

Author

Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.

Title

A discourse, delivered at the African meeting-house, in Boston, July 14, 1808, in grateful celebration of the abolition of the African slave-trade, by the governments of the United States, Great Britain and Denmark / by Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Pastor of the Congregational Church in Charlestown.

Publisher

Boston : Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53, Cornhill, 1808.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 6860

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 50953

Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 15651

Binding

Copy in Sc Rare C 15-46 (Lapidus Collection) unbound ; green paper tape repair for spine. NN

Source

Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2015. Copy in Sc Rare C 15-46 (Lapidus Collection), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books

Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2018. Copy in Sc Rare D 18-3 (Lapidus Collection), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books

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Added Author

Vassall, Cyrus.

African Society (Boston, Mass.)

Lincoln & Edmands, printer.

Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.4-M (Morse, J. Discourse, delivered at the African meeting-house)

*KF 1808 (Morse, J. Discourse, delivered at the African meeting-house)

Sc Rare C 15-46 (Lapidus Collection)

Sc Rare D 18-3 (Lapidus Collection)