Charles Colcock Jones. Suggestions on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the Southern States. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1847]. 

Small 8vo, 132 pages. Rebound in modern black library cloth, gilt-lettered spine. LCP, Afro-Americana 5379; Sabin 36471.

A lengthy work by Georgia Presbyterian minister Charles Colcock Jones (1804-1863) on the education of slaves. Jones, who had preached extensively on the subject as early as 1832 (LCP, Afro-Americana 5376), was himself a slave owner, enslaving over 100 individuals in 1850 and nearly 90 in 1860, at his three plantations in Liberty County, Georgia. He was deeply concerned with the religious instruction of those he enslaved and was sometimes referred to as the "Apostle to Slaves."

The Library Company of Philadelphia's Afro-Americana bibliography lists the same publication with 132 pages. Sabin records another issue of the same year and publication information, but with 56 pages. No precedence is established. Either edition is scarce in the trade. 

[African Americana, African American History, Black History, Slavery, Enslavement, Abolition, Emancipation] [Pamphlets, Publications, Ephemera, Books, Rare Books, Tracts]

Ex-library with shelf marks.