Desirable volume of sermons designed explicitly for the evangelization of slaves in the stronghold of the Confederacy, Charleston, South Carolina. Through that slave port, 25% of Americans to this day can trace their arrival in America.
Volumes like this placated the Southern church's desire for evangelism, but at the same time often framed Christian submission to the will of God as submission inside the societal structure, i.e. "be a good slave."
No other copies on the market and highly desirable.
Dickson, A. F. Plantation Sermons, or Plain and Familiar Discourses for the Instruction of the Unlearned. By the Rev. A. F. Dickson, of Charleston, South Carolina. Philadelphia. Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1856. 170pp.
A good + copy, bound in cloth, generally solid, with generally bright pages, a small stain on the last few leaves; and remains of a library label on the pastedown.
