Author: [SLAVERY].
Title: An Authentic Account of The Conversion and Experience of a Negro.
Description: London: Prined for T. Wilkins, [c. 1795] [8vo], 185 x 125 mms., pp. 4, a single leaf, folded. The pamphlet relates the conversation that an English Gentleman had with a "Negro" while in North America. The gist is that the Negro is not unhappy with his status as a slave: "I wished him to tell me, whether his state of slavery was not disagreeable to him, and whether he would not gladly exchange if for his liberty?" "Masah (said he, looking seriously upon me) I have q wife and children; my massah takes of them, and I have not care to provide any thing. I have a good massah...." The English Gentleman is so impressed with his new friend's candour, "telling him that neither the colour of his body, nor the condition of his present life, could prevent him from being my dear borther in our dear Saviour...." The pamphlet ends with the narrator expressing some surprise that a Negro could be a Christian and ends with a strong endorsement of God's "holy word" which we can read in "our own mother tongue...." The printer, T Wilkins, printed and published the Olney Hymns and other religious texts, many of which are Methodist in tone. This pamphlet is not scarce, with over eight copies located in universities in America and the UK.

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