The Baptist Annual Register for 1790, 1791, 1792, and Part of 1793. Including Sketches of the State of Religion among Different Denominations of Good Men at Home and Abroad de Rippon, John, 1751-1836, editor. [also *David George, 1742-1810] - 1793

[London]: Sold by Mr. Rippon [and others], 1793. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 portraits (Caleb Evans, Robert Hall and James Manning), tables (1 folding), viii, 16, [4], [17]-564, (21)p. Contemporary 1/4 leather (marbled boards backed leather with tiny matching corners). 23cm. Cover scuffed and rather worn. Ends of backstrip chipped. Contents sound and clean with only light foxing and some bits of soiling. Includes "An Account of the Life of Mr. David George, from Sierra Leone in Africa, given by himself in a Conversation with Brother Rippon of London, and Brother Pearce of Birmingham." (pp. 473-484). This autobiographical slave narrative states that George was born a slave near the Nottaway River in Essex County, Virginia. He escaped and was recaptured before becoming free during the American Revolution. Rev. George was a British Loyalist during the Revolution. After the British lost the war, George was evacuated by the British to Nova Scotia, where he became a Baptist preacher for five years, before accepting resettlement in Sierra Leone with a number of other free blacks from Nova Scotia. He founded the first Baptist Church in Sierra Leone and died in Freetown in 1810. This volume also contains a report, at pages 332-344, on two Baptist churches consisting chiefly of slaves (one was in Kingston, Jamaica; the other in Savannah, Georgia).