1783 SAMUEL SPRING. One of the First Children's Religious Books Published in America! Preaching The "British Slave-Owners Legacy" project

The "British Slave-Owners Legacy" project denotes them as one of the largest slave owners in Barbados

and sported themselves with the Blood of Millions

nearly pristine modern binding in large 4to half calf

Nephew of the famous Jonathan Trumbull and Chaplain during the American Revolution

and Mere Christianity in the journal Christianity and Literature

1783 SAMUEL SPRING. One of the First Children's Religious Books Published in America! Preaching The "British Slave-Owners Legacy" projectA wonderful and very early piece of children's religious Americana and one of the earliest illustrated American works as well. The American Antiquarian Society's Exhibition of Children's Books before 1800 records only 8 titles issued previous to the present offering. Additionally, in a 1957 article on early Children's books in the United States, it is listed alongside the New England Primer [issued just 6 years previous], The Token for Children by