The first of three editions of a scarce and desirable work. Charles Colcock Jones was a Georgia plantation owner as well as a Presbyterian minister. He here insists upon the moral obligation to teach Christianity to the enslaved, without questioning the morality of slavery. The first hundred pages are devoted to a rather stilted, though detailed, history of American slavery. Afro-Americana 5378; Howes J193; Sabin 36470; not in Blockson. Only offered a handful of times at auction since 1960, averaging less than once per decade.
Jones, Charles C. The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States. Savannah. Published by Thomas Purse. 1842. 277pp.
Good -, spine badly chipped as shown, corner sworn through and occasionally at board edges. For all that, it remains remarkable solid. Blank ffep excised. Textually very solid and clean. A nearly exemplary copy textually.
