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Title(s):
Society for the Conversion &c. of Negroe Slaves.
Published/Created:
Great Britain, ca. 1820.
Physical Description:
1 seal : wax, with paper backing ; 6.4 cm in diameter
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
BV4914 .S63 Flat
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16077970
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
The Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands was chartered in 1794 to administer the charitable fund willed by Hon. Robert Boyle in 1691. In 1823 the society was incorporated and the name changed to the Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negroe Slaves in the British West India Islands. Cf. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time (entry 85878).
Title from the seal's inscription. The seal also bears the date 1793, the year of the Society's founding.
Subject Terms:
Christian education -- West Indies, British -- Societies, etc.
Enslaved persons -- West Indies, British -- Religion.
Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands.
Form/Genre:
Seals (marks)
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