West Indies:

THE TWO CHARTERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR ADVANCING THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIA ISLANDS, AND ELSEWHERE, WITHIN THE DIOCESES OF JAMAICA AND OF BARBADOES, AND THE LEEWARD ISLANDS, AND IN THE MAURITIUS: TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE CHARITABLE FUND.

1836. London: 1836. 32pp, bound in later marbled wraps [library mark, separated from text block]. Very Good.

Robert Boyle originally bequeathed his estate to the Society for propagating the gospel among the infidels in America. But, after American Independence, the Bishop of London petitioned the Court of Chancery in London to apply the Estate's bounty for "the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands."
After Emancipation there, and shortly before publication of this document, the Chancery Court decreed that the freed Negroes-- as well as "Coloured Inhabitants of other parts of our Colonial Possessions"-- "should still be the principal objects of the" fund, "with a view to the removal of religious distinctions between the White and the Coloured Inhabitants..." This pamphlet provides the foregoing history, and the Charters of the Society.
FIRST EDITION. Sabin 85883. OCLC records six locations under three accession numbers as of November 2022. Not in LCP, Blockson, Work, Stevens Rare Americana, Ragatz, Cundall. Item #5249

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