Black Female Charity Schools

The Charitable Blessed. A Sermon Preached in the First Church in New Haven August 8, 1810.

New Haven: Sidney's Press, 1810.

Price: $150.00


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First edition. 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black Female Charity Schools. Disbound, marginal discoloration and soiling, else a very good copy. Sabin 21563n; S & S 20017.

Item #22945

Dwight's sermon on the importance of charity, especially the Charity Societies, citing one in particular that was of interest to him. A school that was established in New Haven to educate black female children. Dwight emphasized the responsibility to educate these freed people to give them the necessities and skills to fit successfully into the community.