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A Plea For Africa. A Sermon Preached October 26, 1817, in the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, Before the Synod of New York and New Jersey, at the Request of The Board of Directors of The African School Established by the Synod.
New York: Gould, printer, 1817
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first edition, octavo, 76 pp., dis-bound, lacking wrappers, scattered foxing to text, else very good. Griffin (1770-1837) was a pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Newark, New Jersey, and later president of Williams College. "It is due to the respectable citizens of Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Hudson, Newark, and New Brunswick, to notice, that the sermon, at the direction of the board, was, with slight alterations, preached in all those places, and collections taken up for the benefit of the African School" (verso of title-page).
In addition to the sermon the work includes Distinguished Africans and Mulattoes now living in the United States and An Account of the African School, pp. [37] - 72; and a notice of the African Society of Newark, pp. 73-76. The African School in question was in Parsippany, New Jersey. American Imprints 40956; Sabin 28818
