A rare, very finely preserved example of Jones' important work on the need of providing religious education for slaves in the deep South. Also contains the rare appendix which records an important catalog of organizations attempting to work with the disenfranchised population.

The 1847 Philadelphia edition is scarce, last sold at auction at Swann, 2006 for $747.50 with commissions. The market has experience significant price increases since that time. 

From the superb Southern and Slavery Collection of Rev. Milton S. Carothers of Florida State University. 

Jones, Charles Colcock. Suggestions on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the Southern States; Together with an Appendix Containing Forms of Church Registers, Form of a Constitution, and Plans of Different Denominations of Christians. Philadelphia. Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1847. 56pp.

A very good copy, bound in cloth, very solid, pages that are a bit handled, with light foxing.