1859 EDUCATION OF MISSISSIPPI SLAVES. The Religious Instruction of Our Colored Population. Fine Binding John Allen [1795-1887]

John Allen [1795-1887]

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Earliest Methodism in the United States

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1859 EDUCATION OF MISSISSIPPI SLAVES. The Religious Instruction of Our Colored Population. Fine Binding John Allen [1795-1887]An exceptionally rare work issued by the Presbytery of Tombeckbee, which would later become one the first black led religious organizations in the South. The Prebsytery, created specifically to address the religious needs of "colored persons" in the south, was most influential in Mississippi. In the present, the Presbytery effuses on the religious obligation to Christianize the euphemistically described "colored population." A complex work in which