including: runaway slaves
providing some of the most substantive responses available to early abolitionist tracts and works
may the Most High bless them and all the hosts which are engaged in our holy cause
and also the conversion of an early - possibly first- native pastor
but is also keen to keep business moving forward
1858 THEODORE CLAPP. Controversial New Orleans Minister, Slavery, Abolition, Cholera &c. Leather including: runaway slavesA superb and scarce autobiography of a controversial Presbyterian divine who pastored in New Orleans for 35 years. A fantastic read, and content almost without peer in terms of the street level view of New Orleans life, culture, its activity as a slave station, etc., Theodore Clapp [1792 1866] graduated Yale, 1814 and proceeded from there to Andover. By 1822, he was missionary of the Presbyterian Church to the South where he served as the Pastor of