A Thanksgiving sermon: preached January 1, 1808 in St. Thomas's, or the African Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, on account of the abolition of the African slave trade on that day, by the Congress of the U.S. [Microform]
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A Thanksgiving sermon: preached January 1, 1808 in St. Thomas's, or the African Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, on account of the abolition of the African slave trade on that day, by the Congress of the U.S. [Microform]
Names
St. Thomas Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (Host)
Fortune, Michael, fl. 1808 (Composer)
Jones, Absalom, 1746-1818 (Author)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1808
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: Fry and Kammerer
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc Micro R-6200
Subjects
Free African Americans
African Americans
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- Anniversaries, etc
Slave trade -- United States
Genres
Notes
Content: "New Year's Anthem, written by Michael Fortune" on final two pages.
Physical Description
Microfilms
Extent: 24, [2] p. 19 cm.
Languages
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11841487
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d5d9be00-29af-0133-2cbe-60f81dd2b63c
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1808
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "A Thanksgiving sermon: preached January 1, 1808 in St. Thomas's, or the African Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, on account of the abolition of the African slave trade on that day, by the Congress of the U.S. [Microform]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1808. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d5d9be00-29af-0133-2cbe-60f81dd2b63c
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1808). A Thanksgiving sermon: preached January 1, 1808 in St. Thomas's, or the African Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, on account of the abolition of the African slave trade on that day, by the Congress of the U.S. [Microform] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d5d9be00-29af-0133-2cbe-60f81dd2b63c
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "A Thanksgiving sermon: preached January 1, 1808 in St. Thomas's, or the African Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, on account of the abolition of the African slave trade on that day, by the Congress of the U.S. [Microform]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d5d9be00-29af-0133-2cbe-60f81dd2b63c
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