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The Negro Christianized An essay to excite and assist the good work, the instruction…
The Negro Christianized An essay to excite and assist the good work, the instruction of Negro-servants in Christianity. : [Four lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1706
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The way is now cleared, for the work that is proposed: that excellent WORK, The Instruction of the Negroes in the Christian Religion.
A CATECHISM shall be got ready for them; first a Shorter, then a Larger; Suited at to their poor Capacities.
They who cannot themselves Personally so well attend the Instruction of the ⟨p. 29⟩Negroes, may employ and reward those that shall do it for them. In many Families, the Children may help the Negroes, to Learn the Catechism, or their well-instructed and well-disposed English Servants may do it: And they should be Rewarded by the Masters, when they do it.
In a Plantation of many Negroes, why should not a Teacher be hired on purpose, to instil into them the principles of the Catechism?