Research Catalog

Title

The Negro's & Indians advocate, suing for their admission into the church, or, A persuasive to the instructing and baptizing of the Negro's and Indians in our plantations : shewing, that as the compliance therewith can prejudice no mans just interest : so the wilful neglecting and opposing of it, is no less than a manifest apostacy from the Christian faith : to which is added, a brief account of religion in Virginia / by Morgan Godwyn, sometime St. of Ch. Ch. Oxon.

Author

Godwyn, Morgan, active 1685.

Publication

London : Printed for the author, by J.D. and are to be sold by most booksellers, 1680.

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Details

Additional Authors

Darby, John, 1624 or 1625-1704

Description

[16], 112, 97-112, 129-174, [2] p.; 18 cm. (8vo)

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Persuasive to the instructing and baptizing of Negro's and Indians in our plantations
• Negro's & Indians advocate, suing for their admission into the church
• Negro's & Indian's advocate, suing for their admission into the church
• Negro's and Indians advocate, suing for their admission into the church
• Negro's and Indian's advocate, suing for their admission into the church

Subjects

• Black people > West Indies, British > Religion > Early works to 1800
• Black people > Missions > Barbados > Early works to 1800
• Church of England Virginia > Early works to 1800
• African Americans > Missions > Early works to 1800
• Religious education > West Indies, British > Early works to 1800
• Slaves > West Indies, British > Early works to 1800
• Slavery > Religious aspects > Christianity > Early works to 1800
• Maryland > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Early works to 1800
• Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Early works to 1800
• Indians of North America > Missions > Early works to 1800

Note

• The first leaf is blank.
• Text continuous despite pagination.
• The first "and" [transcribed in this record as "&"] on title page is a Tironian "et".
• "Errata."--p. [16], first count.
• "The state of religion in Virginia, as it was some time before the late rebellion, represented in a letter to Sir W. B. then governour thereof"--p. 167-174.
• Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁸(-M8).

Indexed In (note)

• Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America
• English short title catalogue
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.)

Source (note)

• of Sidney Lapidus;

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
• inscribed: manuscript corrections, in ink, on pgs. 38 and 100 (second appearance).

Binding (note)

• rebound in half brown leather with brown cloth boards.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.972R-G (Godwyn, M. Negro's [and] Indians advocate)

LCCN

08003497

OCLC

• 145080096
• 5000668
• NYPGR5000668-B

Author

Godwyn, Morgan, active 1685.

Title

The Negro's & Indians advocate, suing for their admission into the church, or, A persuasive to the instructing and baptizing of the Negro's and Indians in our plantations : shewing, that as the compliance therewith can prejudice no mans just interest : so the wilful neglecting and opposing of it, is no less than a manifest apostacy from the Christian faith : to which is added, a brief account of religion in Virginia / by Morgan Godwyn, sometime St. of Ch. Ch. Oxon.

Imprint

London : Printed for the author, by J.D. and are to be sold by most booksellers, 1680.

Indexed In:

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 663

English short title catalogue, R21645

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 4149A

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 27677

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), G971

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.972R-G (accession no. B594154) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 326.972R-G imperfect; lacking first blank leaf. NN

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare B 16-19 (Lapidus Collection) inscribed: manuscript corrections, in ink, on pgs. 38 and 100 (second appearance). NN

Binding

Copy in Sc Rare B 16-19 (Lapidus Collection) rebound in half brown leather with brown cloth boards. NN

Local Note

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-1116 or the electronic resource.

Source

Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2015. Copy in Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books

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Added Author

Darby, John, 1624 or 1625-1704, printer.

Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.972R-G (Godwyn, M. Negro's [and] Indians advocate)

*KC 1680 (Godwin, M. Negro's & Indians advocate)

Sc Rare B 16-19 (Lapidus Collection)