REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ANTI-SLAVERY MEMORIALS, SEPTEMBER, 1845. WITH A HISTORICAL STATEMENT OF PREVIOUS PROCEEDINGS. Cet article n’est pas disponible.REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ANTI-SLAVERY MEMORIALS, SEPTEMBER, 1845. WITH A HISTORICAL STATEMENT OF PREVIOUS PROCEEDINGS

32pp, disbound with light title page dusting. Good plus. The Report is an excellent source of information on Slavery among the Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, a gift to those Nations from white settlers in the late 18th century. The Board notes with embarrassment that it was the beneficiary of slaves under the wills of grateful slaveholders who received the gospel from its missionaries. The question addressed by the Committee-- which included Reverends Benjamin Tappan and Calvin Stowe-- concerned "the admission of slave-holders to churches under the care of the missionaries of the Board." Its report calls obvious slavery's "disastrous moral and social influences upon the less enlightened and less civilized communities where the missionaries of this Board are laboring." But the natural effect of the Gospel-- whose propagation is the primary goal of the Board-- weakens the chains of the slave. That churches may have a connection with slavery, as they do with every "imperfect moral renovation in their converts and church members," does not diminish the Gospel's force. LCP 342. Sabin 81829. Dumond 12. AI 45-168 [5]. Not in Gilcrease-Hargrett, Eberstadt, Decker, Work, Field, Blockson.…