1860 The American Church and the African Slave Trade. Mr. Jay's Speech

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First Edition, Rebound, Very Scarce

The first edition of this very scarce work.

A speech given by John Jay to the New York Diocesan Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, on the 27th September 1860.

In this speech, Jay questions why religious institutions hitherto had mostly avoided the subject of slavery.

John Jay was a lawyer, who defended numerous fugitive slaves in court during his career, helping them to gain freedom. He was the grandson of the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Federalist, and Founding Father, John Jay, and was president of the New York Young Men's Antislavery Society and the American Historical Association.

An interesting piece of Americana published during the tumultuous years leading up to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.