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Size | 1 item |
Abstract | Pages 2-4 of a letter to Reverend Van Rensselaer, New York Presbyterian minister, then giving religious instruction to slaves in Virginia, from Samuel S. Davis in Camden, S.C., describing opposition to such work at Savannah, Ga., and other matters. |
Creator | Van Rensselaer, Cortlandt, 1808-1860. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Courtlandt Van Rensselaer (1808-1860) was the son of Stephen and Cornelia Patterson Van Rensselaer. After graduating from Yale in 1823 and studying law, he attended Union Seminary at Hampden-Sydney, Va., and was ordained in April 1835. He gave religious instruction to slaves on Virginia plantations for about a year before opposition to him increased to such an extent that he went back to the North in August 1836. He spent the rest of his career in the North as a Presbyterian fund raiser, chief of the Presbyterian Board of Education, lecturer, and writer.
[For further information see the Dictionary of American Biography.]
Back to TopPages 2-4 of a letter to Reverend Van Rensselaer, New York Presbyterian minister, then giving religious instruction to slaves in Virginia, from Samuel S. Davis in Camden, S.C., describing opposition to such work at Savannah, Ga., and other matters.
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Letter fragment |