[OHIO] [BAPTISTS] Minutes of the Ashtabula Association of Independent Baptist Churches held at Richmond, Ohio, September 9th and 10th, 1868

[Ashtabula Association of Independent Baptist Churches]

Published by "Telegraph" Book and Job Printing Office, Ashtabula, Ohio, 1868

About this Item

Octavo, 13, [1]pp. A good copy in the publisher's sewn binding with pale orange wraps. Staining and soiling to wraps, and a large but faint dampstain affecting almost the entirety of the page block. General wrinkling, but still overall a sound, legible, complete copy of this scarce rural Ohio imprint. Ashtabula, a Lake Erie town, was a known stop on the Underground Railroad, and the religious fervor which had traveled down to Ohio from the Burned-Over District in Western New York did much to stir the hearts of early Abolitionists in northeast Ohio in the decades preceding this pamphlet. Contents include the usual discussions of finances and other church business, there are also detailed discussions of church history. Though he is not mentioned by name, this group of Independent Baptists in Ashtabula County would have been the general milieu of Joshua Giddings, the firebrand Abolitionist Ohio Congressman who risked his seat by violating the gag rule against discussing slavery in Congress back in the 1840s; an action which, in a small but significant way, "heightened the contradictions" and ultimately contributed to the end of slavery in the United States. OCLC records just a single holding of this pamphlet, at AAS. Seller Inventory # 9177

Bibliographic Details

Title: [OHIO] [BAPTISTS] Minutes of the Ashtabula ...

Publisher: "Telegraph" Book and Job Printing Office, Ashtabula, Ohio

Publication Date: 1868

Binding: Sewn binding

Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition.