1852 AFRICAN SLAVE'S FUNERAL CHOCTAW INDIAN GIRL CANNIBALISM YOUTH'S MISSIONARY

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1852 CHILDREN'S MISSIONARY MAGAZINE: SLAVE'S FUNERAL, CANNIBALISM, CHOCTAW INDIAN GIRL, &c.
THE YOUTH'S DAYSPRING. July, 1852.
Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1852. First edition; children's missionary magazine. Original pictorial wrappers (measuring 6.5 x 4 inches), [20] pages (pp.95-114), illustrated. Articles include "An African Funeral," telling the story of the death, funeral, and burial of a "Governor's slave," noting ignorantly that slaves usually just throw the dead in the woods, and run away, leaving them to rot, asking "Why, then, do they not believe in Jesus?... The white people who have been among them have almost all been wicked... sold them rum and firearms, and excited them to war, that they might make slaves of each other to load their vessels with..."; "The Missionaries by the Euphrates," "A Choctaw Girl on Loving Enemies" by Elizabeth Hudson, "A Sabbath in Morsovan," "Wandering Namaquas," "Journey to Seringapatam," "A Brahmin Carrying Holy Water," "Christian Children in the Valley of Godavery," "Young Sandwich Islander," and "A Story about Cannibalism." Very good condition, light wear and foxing.
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