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The 4th edition of this tract ( 8 pages ) published by the New England Tract Society before merging, 1825, with the New York ministry to create the American Tract Society. This piece was frequently reprinted and in later printings after the merger with a slightly altered text. In this printing the author refers to an "excursion to the province of Newyork" and the latter American Tract text states "a visit to the United States". Another case is the reference "that his master was a Quaker, a plain sort of man." and the American Tract edit is " his master was an honest, plain sort of man.". Also includes the pieces - "On Vital Religion". "The Profligate Reclaimed", "The Pious Labourer" and " The Praying Soldier".Folded on the edges, a small section torn off, not effecting the test. Scarce.

American Tract Society #7. no date (1825) 12mo wraps. Front cover has 1-1/2 x 2-1/2 inch vignette of two men talking along a road, one presumably the Happy Negro. Text tells how an English Gentleman, walking in New York, met a Negro on the road. "I wished him to tell me whether his state of slavery was not disagreeable to him. 'Massa' said he...'I have a wife and children; my Massa take care of them and I have no care to provide any thing; I have a good Massa who teach me to read". Foxed but legible; not torn; binding secure; no ownership marks; no chips. .

New York: American Tract, 1825. paperback. To Which are added, the Praying Soldier and the Profligate Reclaimed. title vignette of the author meeting a slave. 8pp. 12mo, self wrappers; (large piece of bottom of title page lacking with loss of two words of imprint and a few words of the bottom line of the first page of text, light foxing). [New York]: American Tract Society, n.d., [ca. 1825].<br/><br/> Author was one of the under-secretaries of state for the colonies. "He went to America in 1774, accompanied the British army from 1776 to 1778..." DNB XVII, p. 1192. During his stay in New York City he travelled to a farm. He writes of his conversation with a slave he met there. The slave was literate and read the Bible. The author writes mostly on his and the slave's views on the Bible and religion. This edition not in Shoemaker. Library Company of Philadelphia, Afro- Americana 9284.<br/><br/>