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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Space restricts us to such works as may be found in the Boston College Library, Newton, Mass.

I. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR AFRICAN OPHIOLATRY

ANONYMOUS.
Ophiolatreia or Serpent Worship (Printed Privately).

ATKINS, JOHN.
A Voyage to Guinea, Brasil, and the West Indies in His Majesty's Ships the Swallow and Weymouth, London, 1735.

BASDEN, G. T.
Among the Ibos of Nigeria, London, 1921.

BAUDIN, PÈRE.
Fétichisme et Féticheurs, Lyon, 1884.

BOSCH, F.
Le Culte Des Ancêtres chez les Banyamwezi--ANTHROPOS, Vol. XX (1925).

BOSMAN, WILLIAM.
A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coast, London, 1705.

BOUCHE, PIERRE.
La Côte des Esclaves et le Dahomey, Paris, 1885.

BREASTED, JAMES HENRY.
History of Egypt, New York, 1905.
Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt, New York, 1905.
Ancient Records of Egypt, London, 1907.
History of Ancient Egyptians, London, 1908.

BRIAULT, M.
Polytheism and Fetishism, London, 1931.

BROSSES, CHARLES DES.
Du Culte des dieux Fétiches ou Parallèle de l'Ancienne Religion de l'Égypte avec la Religion de Nigritie, Paris, 1760.

BROWNE, W. G.
Travels in Africa, Egypt and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798, London, 1806.

BRUCE, JAMES.
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Edinburgh, 1804.

BRUGSCH, HENRI.
History of Egypt under the Pharaohs, London, 1879.

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BRUNET, L.
Dahomey et Dépendances, Paris, 1901.

BUDGE, A. E. WALLIS.
Egyptian Magic, London, 1908.
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life, London, 1908.
The Book of the Dead, London, 1923.
Short History of the Egyptian People, London, 1923.
Dwellers on the Nile, London, 1926.
Amulets and Superstitions, Oxford, 1930.

BURTON, RICHARD F.
A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, London, 1864.

CLEMEN, CARL.
Religions of the World, New York, 1931.

COOKSEY, J. J. and McLEISH, ALEXANDER.
Religion and Civilization in West Africa, London, 1931

DALZELL, ARCHIBALD.
History of Dahomey, an Inland Kingdom of Africa, London, 1793.

DEANE, JOHN BATHURST.
The Worship of the Serpent, London, 1830.

DENNETT, R. E.
At the Back of the Black Man's Mind, London, 1906.

DESRIBES, E.
L'Évangile au Dahomey et d la Côte des Esclaves, Clermont-Ferrand, 1877.

DRIBERG, J. H.
The Lango, a Nilotic Tribe of Uganda, London, 1923.

DU CHAILLU, PAUL BELLONI.
A Journey to Ashango Land, London, 1867.

DUNCAN, JOHN.
Travels in West Africa in 1845 and 1846, London, 1847.

ELLIS, ALFRED BURTON.
The Land of Fetish, London, 1883.
The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast of Africa, London, 1887.
The Ewe-Speaking Peoples, London, 1890.
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast, London, 1894.

FARROW, STEPHEN SEPTIMUS.
Faith, Fancies and Fetish, or Yoruba Paganism, London, 1926.

FERAUD, L.
Les Peuplades de la Sénégambie, Paris, 1879.

FOÀ, ÉDOUARD.
Le Dahomey, Paris, 1895.

FORBES, FREDERICK E.
Dahomey and the Dahomans; being the Journals of two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and Residence at his Capital, in the Years 1849 and 1850, London, 1851.

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FRAZER, JAMES GEORGE.
Totemism and Exogamy, London, 1910.
The Golden Bough, London, 1920.
Garnered Sheaves, London, 1931.

FREEMAN, THOMAS B.
Journal of various Visits to the Kingdoms of Ashanti, Aku, and Dahomi in Western Africa, London, 1844.

GARNIER, J.
The Worship of the Dead or the Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry, London, 1904.

HADDON, A. C.
The Wanderings of Peoples, Cambridge, 1911.
Magic and Fetishism, London, 1921.

HAMBLY, WILFRID DYSON.
History of Tattooing and Its Significance, London, 1925.
Serpent Worship in Africa, Chicago, 1931.

HASTINGS, JAMES.
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (Edited), New York, 1913-1922.

HOLLIS, A. C.
The Masai: Their Language and Folklore, Oxford, 1905.
The Nandi: Their Language and Folklore, Oxford, 1909.

HOPKINS, E. WASHBURN.
The History of Religions, New York, 1926.

HOVELACQUE, ABEL.
Les Nègres de l'Afrique Sus-Equatoriale, Paris, 1889.

HOWEY, M. OLDFIELD.
The Encircled Serpent, Philadelphia, 1928.

HUREL, P. E.
Religion et Vie Domestique des Bakerewe--ANTHROPOS, Vol. VI (1911).

HUTCHINSON, THOMAS
Impressions of Western Africa, London, 1858.

JOHNSTON, HARRY HAMILTON.
The Uganda Protectorate, London, 1902.
The Nile Quest, New York, 1903.
Liberia, London, 1906.

KINGSLEY, MARY H.
Travels in West Africa, London, 1897.
West African Studies, London, 1899.

KITCHING, A. L.
On the Backwaters of the Nile, London, 1912.

LABAT, PÈRE.
Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de l'Amérique, La Haye, 1724.

LAFITTE, J.
Le Dahomé, Tours, 1873.

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LEONARD, ARTHUR GLYN.
The Lower Niger and its Tribes, London, 1906.

LÉVY-BRUHL, LUCIEN.
The "Soul" of the Primitive, New York, 1928.

LIPPERT, JULIUS.
The Evolution of Culture, London, 1931.

LUBBOCK, JOHN.
Origin of Civilization and the Primitive Condition of Man, New York, 1912.

MANGIN, ARTHUR.
L'Homme et la Bête, Paris, 1872.

MANGIN, EUGÈNE P.
Les Mossi--ANTHROPOS, Vol. X (1915).

MASPERO, GASTON.
The Dawn of Civilization, New York, 1894.
History of Egypt, New York, 1906.
Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt, London, 1915.
Études de Mythologie et d'Arcéologie Égyptiennes, Paris, 1916.

M'LEOD, JOHN.
A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People, London, 1820.

MEEK, C. K.
The Northern Tribes of Nigeria, Oxford, 1925.
Tribal Studies in Northern Nigeria, London, 1931.

MEINHOF, C.
Die Dichtung der Afrikaner, Berlin, 1911.

NASSAU, ROBERT HAMMILL.
Fetishism in West Africa, London, 1904.
Where Animals Talk, London, 1914.

NORRIS, ROBERT.
Memoirs of the Reign of Bassa Ahadee, King of Dahomy, London, 1789.

OLDHAM, C. F.
The Sun and the Serpent, London, 1905.

PERRY, WILLIAM JAMES.
The Children of the Sun, London, 1927.

PETRIE, W. M. FLINDERS.
History of Egypt, New York, 1896.
Religions and Conscience in Ancient Egypt, New York, 1898.
Personal Religion in Egypt before Christianity, London, 1909.
Amulets, London, 1914.
History of Egypt from the Earliest Kings of the XVIth Dynasty, New York, 1924.

PRICHARD, JAMES COWLES.
Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, London, 1851,

RATZEL, FRIEDRICH.
The History of Mankind, London, 1896-1898.

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REVILLE, A.
Les Religions des Peuples Non-Civilisés, Paris, 1883.

ROSCOE, JOHN.
The Baganda, An Account of their Native Customs and Beliefs, London, 1911.
The Northern Bantu, Cambridge, 1915.
Twenty-five Years in East Africa, Cambridge, 1921.
The Soul of Central Africa, London, 1922.
The Bakitara or Banyoro, Cambridge, 1923.
The Banyankole, Cambridge, 1923.

ROUGEMONT, FRÉDÉRIC DE.
Le Peuple Primitif: Sa Religion, Son Histoire et Sa Civilisation, Genève, 1855.

SAYCE, A. H.
Ancient Empires of the East, London, 1886.
Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotus, London, 1896.
The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, Edinburgh, 1903.

SCHWEINFURTH, GEORG.
The Heart of Africa, New York, 1874.

SCOT, REGINALD.
The Discovery of Witchcraft, London, 1665.

SELIGMAN, C. G.
Races of Africa, London, 1930.

SKERTCHLEY, J. A.
Dahomey as it is; being a Narrative of eight months' Residence in that Country, London, 1874.

SMITH, EDWIN W. and DALE, ANDREW MURRAY.
The Ila-Speaking People of Northern Rhodesia, London, 1920.

SMITH, GRAFTON ELIOT.
The Evolution of the Dragon, Manchester, 1919.
The Migrations of Early Culture, Manchester, 1929.

SMITH, WILLIAM.
A New Voyage to Guinea, London, 1745.

SMITH, W. ROBERTSON.
Lectures on Religion of the Semites, London, 1923.

SNELGRAVE, WILLIAM.
A New Account of some Parts of Guinea and the Slave-Trade, London, 1734.

SPENCER, HERBERT.
Descriptive Sociology: African Races: Compiled and abstracted by Prof. David Duncan, London, 1875.
Reissue, entirely rewritten by E. Torday, London, 1930.

STAM, N.
The Religious Conceptions of the Kavirondo--ANTHROPOS, Vol. V (1910).

SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM and KELLER, ALBERT GALLOWAY.
The Science of Society, New Haven, 1927.

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TALBOT, D. AMAURY.
Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People, London, 1915

TALBOT, PERCY AMAURY.
In the Shadow of the Bush, London, 1912.
Life in Southern Nigeria, London, 1923.
The Peoples of Southern Nigeria, Oxford, 1926.
Tribes of the Niger Delta, London, 1932.

THOMAS, NORTHCOTE W.
Anthropological Report on the Ibo-Speaking People of Nigeria, London, 1913-1914

TREMEARNE, A. J. N.
Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria, London, 1912.
The Ban of the Bori, London, 1914.

TYLOR, EDWARD B.
Primitive Culture, Boston, 1874.

VAN GENNEP, ARNOLD.
L'État actuel du Problême Totemique, Paris, 1920.

VINSON, JULIEN.
Les Religions Actuelles, Paris, 1888.

WAKE, C. STANILAND.
Serpent-Worship and other Essays, London, 1888.

WEEKS, JOHN H.
Among Congo Cannibals, London, 1913.
Among the Primitive Bakongo, Philadelphia, 1914

WERNER, ALICE.
Natives of British Central Africa, London, 1906.

WESTERMANN, DEITRICH.
Die Kpelle, Leipzig, 1921.

WILSON, J. LEIGHTON.
Western Africa, Its History, Condition, and Prospects, London, 1856.

II. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR HAITIAN VOODOO

ANDRADE, MANUEL J.
Folk-lore from the Dominican Republic, New York, 1930.

AUBIN, EUGÈNE.
En Haïti, Paris, 1910.

BARSKEET, JAMES.
History of the Island of St. Domingo, from the Discovery of Columbus to the present Period, London, 1818.

BIRD, M. B.
The Black Man; or, Haytian Independence, New York, 1869.

BONNEAU, ALEXANDRE.
Haïti: Ses Progres--Son Avenir, Paris, 1862.

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BONSAL, STEPHEN.
The American Mediterranean, New York, 1912.

BROWN, J.
History and present Condition of St. Domingo, Philadelphia, 1837.

CHARLEVOIX, PIERRE FRANÇOIS XAVIER DE.
Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue, Paris, 1830.

DAVIS, H. P.
Black Democracy: The Story of Hayti, New York, 1928.

DORSAINVIL, J. C.
Une Explication Philologique du Vòdú, Port-au-Prince, 1924.
Manuel d'Histoire d'Haïti, Port-au-Prince, 1925.
Vodou et Névrose, Port-au-Prince, 1931.

ELLIS, ALFRED BURTON.
On Vodu-Worship--POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, Vol. XXXVIII (1891).

FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY.
The English in the West Indies; or, the Bow of Ulysses, London, 1888.

HAZARD, SAMUEL.
Santo Domingo: Past and Present with a Glance at Hayti, London, 1873.

JOHNSTON, HARRY HAMILTON.
The Negro in the New World, London, 1910.

LÉGER, J. N.
Haïti: Son Histoire et ses Détracteurs, New York, 1907.
Hayti: Her History and her Detractors, New York, 1907.

MADIOU, THOMAS.
Histoire d'Haïti: Années 1492-1807, Port-au-Prince, 1922-1923.
Histoire d'Haïti: Années 1843-1846, Port-au-Prince, 1904.

MANNINGTON, GEORGE.
The West Indies with British Guiana and British Honduras, New York, 1925.

MERWIN, BRUCE W.
A Voodoo Drum from Hayti--UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM JOURNAL, Vol. VIII (1917).

MORAND, PAUL.
Magie Noire, Paris, 1928.

MOREAU DE SAINT-MÉRY, MÉDÉRIC LOUIS ÉLIE.
Loix et Constitutions des Colonies Françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent, Paris, 1780.
Description . . . de la Partie Française de l'Isle Saint-Domingue, Philadelphia, 1797-1798.
Topographical and Political Description of the Spanish Part of Saint-Domingo, Philadelphia, 1798.

NEWELL, WILLIAM W.
Myths of Voodoo Worship and Child Sacrifice in Hayti--JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLK-LORE, Vol. I (1888).

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NILES, BLAIR.
Black Hayti: A Biography of Africa's Eldest Daughter, New York, 1926.

PARSONS, ELSIE CLEWS.
Spirit Cult in Hayti, Paris, 1928.

PRICE-MARS, DR.
Le Sentiment et le Phénomène Religeux chez les Nègres de Saint-Domingue, Port-au-Prince, 1928.
Ainsi Parla l'Oncle, Port-au-Prince, 1929.
Une Étape de l'Évolution Haïtienne, Port-au-Prince, 1929.

PRICHARD, HESKETH.
Where Black Rules White: A Journey across and about Hayti, Westminster, 1900.

ST. JOHN, SPENCER BUCKINGHAM.
Hayti or the Black Republic, London, 1884.
Second Edition (New Matter), London, 1889.

SAVINE, ALBERT.
Saint-Domingue à la Veille de la Révolution. (Souvenirs du Baron Wimpffen), Paris, 1911.

SEABROOK, WILLIAM BUCHLER.
The Magic Island, New York, 1929.

TROUILLOT, D.
Esquisse Ethnographique: Le Vaudoux, Port-au-Prince, 1885.

VAISSIÈRE, PIERRE DE.
Saint-Domingue: La Société et la Vie Créoles sous l'Ancien Regime, (1629-1789), Paris, 1909.

WEATHERFORD, WILLIS DUKE.
The Negro from Africa to America, New York, 1924.

WRIGHT, J.
Voyage to Saint Domingo in the Years 1788, 1789, and 1790, by Francis Alexander Stanislaus, Baron Wimpffen. Translated front the original manuscript which has never been published, London, 1817.

III. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR JAMAICA OBEAH, MYALISM AND REVIVALISM

ANONYMOUS.
Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Jamaica from 1681 to 1737, inclusive, London, 1743.
Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Jamaica from 1681 to 1754, inclusive, London, 1756.
Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Jamaica from 1770 to 1783, Kingston, 1786.
Consolidated Slave Law, passed 22 December, 1826, London, 1827.
Continuation of the Laws of Jamaica passed by the Assembly and

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confirmed by His Majesty in Council, December 26th 1695, London, 1695.
Further Proceedings of the Honourable House of Jamaica, relative to a Bill introduced into the House of Commons, London, 1816.
Hints respecting Christian Education of the Negro Population in the British Colonies, London, 1833.
Religious Instruction of the Coloured and Slave Population of Jamaica, London, 1832.
Report of the Jamaica Royal Commission of Inquiry respecting Certain Disturbances in the Island of Jamaica and the Measures taken in the Course of their Suppression, London, 1866.
Report of the Lords of the Committee of the Council appointed for the Consideration of all Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantation, London, 1789.
Review of Hamel, the Obeah Man, London, 1827.
Slave Law of Jamaica and Documents relative thereto, London, 1828.

BARCLAY, ALEXANDER.
A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies, London, 1828.

BASTIAN, ADOLF.
Der Fetisch an der Küste Guineas, Berlin, 1884.

BECKWITH, MARTHA WARREN.
Black Roadways; a Study of Jamaica Folk Lore, Chapel Hill, 1928.

BELL, HESKETH J.
Obeah; Witchcraft in the West Indies, London, 1889.

BICKNELL, R.
West Indies as they are; or a Real Picture of Slavery; but more particularly as it exists in the Island of Jamaica, London, 1825.

BOWLER, Louis P.
Gold Coast Palava: Life on the Gold Coast, London, 1911.

BRIDGES, GEORGE WILSON.
A Voice from Jamaica; in reply to William Wilberforce, London, 1823.
Annals of Jamaica, London, 1828.

BROWNE, PATRICK.
Civil and Natural History of Jamaica, London, 1756.

BUCHANAN, CLAUDIUS.
Colonial Ecclesiastical Establishment, London, 1812.

BURDETT, WILLIAM.
Life and Exploits of Mansong, commonly called Three-finger Jack, the Terror of Jamaica, Sommers Town, 1800.

CAMERON, NORMAN EUSTACE.
The Evolution of the Negro, Georgetown, Demerara, 1929.

CARDINALL, A. W.
In Ashanti and Beyond, London, 1927.

COOK, E. M.
Jamaica: The Lodestone of the Caribbean, Bristol, 1924.

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COOPER, THOMAS.
Facts illustrative of the Condition of the Negro Slaves in Jamaica, London, 1824.

CUNDALL, FRANK.
Jamaica Negro Proverbs and Sayings, Kingston, 1927.

DE LISSER, HERBERT G.
In Jamaica and Cuba, Kingston, 1910.
Twentieth Century Jamaica, Kingston, 1913.
White Witch of Rosehall, London, 1929.

DUNCAN, PETER.
Narrative of the Wesleyan Mission to Jamaica, London, 1849.

EDWARDS, BRYAN.
History, Civil and Commercial of the British Colonies in the West Indies, London, 1793.

EMERICK, ABRAHAM J.
Obeah and Duppyism in Jamaica (Printed Privately) Woodstock, 1915.
Jamaica Mialism (Printed Privately) Woodstock, 1916
Jamaica Duppies (Printed Privately) Woodstock, 1916.

FULLER, STEPHEN.
New Act of Assembly of the Island of Jamaica . . . commonly called the New Consolidated Act, London, 1789.
Two Reports from the Committee of the Honourable House of Assembly of Jamaica, London, 1789.

GARDNER, WILLIAM JAMES.
History of Jamaica from its Discovery by Christopher Columbus to the Present Time, London, 1873.

GAUNT, MARY.
Where the Twain Meet, New York, 1922.

GREEN, SAMUEL.
Baptist Mission in Jamaica, London, 1842.

GURNEY, JOHN JOSEPH.
Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky, Describing a Winter in the West Indies, New York, 1840.

JECKYLL, WALTER.
Jamaica Song and Story; Anancy Stories, Digging Songs, Ring Tunes and Dancing Tunes, London, 1907.

KNIBB, WILLIAM.
Facts and Documents connected with the late Insurrection in Jamaica and the Violations of Civil and Religious Liberty arising out of it, London, 1832.

LESLIE, CHARLES.
New History of Jamaica, London, 1740.

LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY.
Journal of a West Indian Proprietor, kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica, London, 1834.

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LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM PRINGLE.
Black Jamaica: A Study in Evolution, London, 1899.

LONG, EDWARD.
History of Jamaica, London, 1774.

LUNAN, JOHN.
Abstract of the Laws of Jamaica relating to Slaves, St. Jago de la Vega, 1819.

MADDEN, RICHARD ROBERT.
A Twelvemonth's Residence in the West Indies, during the Transition from Slavery to Apprenticeship, London, 1835.

MARRYAT, JOSEPH.
More Thoughts occasioned by two Publications, London, 1816.

McCREA, HARRY.
Sub-Officers' Guide, Kingston, 1903.

NUGENT, LADY MARIA.
Journal of a Voyage to, and Residence in, the Island of Jamaica, from 1801 to 1805. London, 1839.

PHILLIPPO, JAMES MURCELL.
Jamaica: Its Past and Present State, London, 1843.

RAMPINI, CHARLES.
Letters from Jamaica, Edinburgh, 1873.

RATTRAY, R. SUTHERLAND.
Ashanti Proverbs, Oxford, 1916.
Ashanti, Oxford, 1923.
Religion and Art in Ashanti, Oxford, 1927.
Ashanti Law and Constitution, Oxford, 1929.

RENNY, ROBERT.
History of Jamaica, London, 1807.

RILAND, JOHN.
Memoir of a West India Planter, London, 1827.

ROSE, G. H.
Letter on the Means and Importance of Converting the Slaves in the West Indies to Christianity, London, 1823.

SAMUEL, PETER.
Wesleyan-Methodist Missions in Jamaica and Honduras, London, 1850.

SCOTT, SIBBALD DAVID.
To Jamaica and Back, London, 1876.

SHORE, JOSEPH.
In Old St. James, Kingston, 1911.

SINCLAIR, AUGUSTUS CONSTANTINE.
Parliamentary Debates of Jamaica, Vol. XIII, Spanish-Town, 1866.
Chronological History of Jamaica, Jamaica, 1889.

SLOANE, HANS.
Voyage to the Islands . . . and Jamaica, London, 1707-1725.

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STEPHEN, JAMES.
The Slavery of the British West India Colonies, delineated, London, 1824.

STEWART, J.
Account of Jamaica and its Inhabitants, London, 1808.
View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica, Edinburgh, 1817.

UNDERHILL, EDWARD BEAN.
West Indies: their Social and Religious Condition, London, 1862.

WATSON, RICHARD.
Defence of the Wesleyan Methodist Missions in the West Indies, London, 1817.

WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM.
An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies, London, 1823.

WILLIAMS, CYNRIC R.
Tour through the Island of Jamaica from the Western to the Eastern End, in the Year 1823, London, 1826.

WILLIAMS, JOSEPH JOHN.
Whisperings of the Caribbean, New York, 1925.
Hebrewisms of West Africa, New York, 1930.

YOUNG, ROBERT.
View of Slavery in connection with Christianity, London, 1825.