1859 EDUCATION OF MISSISSIPPI SLAVES. The Religious Instruction of Our Colored Population. Fine Binding Hiester Clymer

Hiester Clymer

John Allen [1795-1887]

and manifested the utmost caution in discriminating between a true and false religious experience…he is supposed to have had a primary influence in originating the College of New Jersey

Among his achievements was the promotion of the opera singer Jenny Lind

Religion in all its strictness is bound upon them

1859 EDUCATION OF MISSISSIPPI SLAVES. The Religious Instruction of Our Colored Population. Fine Binding Hiester ClymerAn exceptionally rare work issued by the Presbytery of Tombeckbee, which would later become one the first black led religious organizations in the South. The Prebsytery, created specifically to address the religious needs of "colored persons" in the south, was most influential in Mississippi. In the present, the Presbytery effuses on the religious obligation to Christianize the euphemistically described "colored population." A complex work in which