Peter Williams

An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Delivered in the African Church, in the City of New York, January 1, 1808. Peter Williams

Publisher Marketing: Title: An oration on the abolition of the slave trade: delivered in the African Church, in the city of New York, January 1, 1808. Author: Peter WilliamsPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03725900CollectionID: CTRG01-B3064PublicationDate: 18080101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: "Order of the celebration of the day."--p. [7] "The introductory address by Henry Sipkins"--p. [9]-[10] Letters certifying Williams' authorship--p. [27]-[28] Published by request of the Committee of Arrangements. Collation: 26, [2] p.; 22 cm Contributor Bio:  Williams, Peter Peter Williams held the first Chair in Performance Practice in a British university (Edinburgh), where he was also first Director of the Russell Collection of Harpsichords and latterly Dean of Music, and the first Arts and Sciences Distinguished Chair at Duke University, North Carolina. His books include The European Organ (1966), Bach: The Goldberg Variations (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Figured Bass Accompaniment (1970), The Organ in Western Culture, 750 1250 (Cambridge University Press, 1993), The Chromatic Fourth During Four Centuries of Music (1998) and The Organ Music of J. S. Bach (Cambridge University Press, second edition 2003).