God Against Slavery; and the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It, as a Sin Against God

Author: Cheever, George B.
Title: God Against Slavery; and the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It, as a Sin Against God
Publication: Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, Ca. 1855-1860

Description: Hardcover. Publisher's cloth, fair copy with fading, toning, wear, stains to cloth, but front and rear flyleaves excised and any blanks or half title before the title page, text shows foxing and old tide marks from waterstains. Still, a readable copy of the first or early edition. George Barrell Cheever (April 7, 1807 - October 1, 1890) was a well-known and controversial abolitionist minister and writer. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry W. Longfellow, and Andover Theological Seminary. In 1821 he became pastor of the Howard Street Congregational Church in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1838 he became pastor of the Allen Street Presbyterian Church, in New York City, and in 1846 the new Congregational Church of the Puritans. New York City. In 1846 he married Elizabeth Hoppin Wetmore Cheever; they had no children. (Wikipedia). Fair.

Seller ID: H32487

Subject: African-American Studies