An address to all the Colored citizens of the United States
By: by John B. Meachum
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Conduct of life; Christian life; Cooperation; Free African Americans; Social conditions; Religious life; Education; National Convention of the Colored Citizens of America (1847 : Pittsburgh, Pa.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003107444
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Description: Born in Virginia in 1789, and lived as a slave until early adulthood, at which time he was able to purchase his own freedom, and that of his father, his wife and children, and about twenty other slaves. In 1825, Meachum was ordained as a minister. The preface provides a short summary of his life, experiences following his years in slavery, his conversion to Christianity, his reunion with his family and purchase of them. His writings comparing the plight of slaves and freedmen in America to the children of Israel exhorts his readers to turn to God's teachings and laws, flee from sin, and unite. He advocates educating children to be industrious and moral, and argues that colored people, both slave and free, should work hard and work together to pursue righteousness. He closes with a call for all to attend the National Convention of the Colored Citizens of America to be held in Pittsburgh in Sept. 1847.
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This electronic edition has been transcribed from a photocopy supplied by the Western Reserve Historical Society Library, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Transcribed from photocopy of: An address to all the Colored citizens of the United States / by John B. Meachum, Pastor of the African Baptist Church, St. Louis, MO. Philadelphia : Printed for the author by King and Baird, 1846. 62 p.

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