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Letter to Roger Sherman at Philadelphia, proposing that Congress should send missionaries to southern states instead of to Africa [manuscript]

by: Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803; Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793 recipient; Boston Public Library. American Revolutionary War Manuscripts Collection

Publication date: 1776

Topics: Africans

Publisher: Stockbridge, Mass.

Collection: bplscarwm; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

Title provided by cataloger

Dated: Stockbridge, Oct. 8, 1776

Sends him two pamphlets, one relating to the proposed African mission and asks his advice as to the wisdom of continuing this project. Or if it would be better to send those missionaries to the southern states to teach the African Americans

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