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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
RAISE SUFFICIENT MEANS TO FREE HIS LAST TWO CHILDREN FROM SLAVERY.
AID HIM IN THE SALE OF THIS BOOK,
A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF REV. NOAH DAVIS, A COLORED MAN. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, AT THE AGE OF FIFTY-FOUR.
PRINTED SOLELY FOR THE AUTHOR'S BENEFIT.
Baltimore: PUBLISHED BY JOHN F. WEISHAMPEL, JR., No. 484 West Baltimore St.
STEREOTYPED BY JOHN F. WEISHAMPEL, JR., BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER, BALTIMORE.
Contents.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
NARRATIVE.
CHAPTER I.
Early Life in Virginia--Example of Pious Parents.
CHAPTER II.
Apprenticed to the shoe-making--Learns housework--Intemperance--"A negro can't be trusted"--Learning how to write and cipher.
CHAPTER III.
Religious Experience--Conviction--Conversion.
CHAPTER IV.
Marriage--License to Preach--Purchase of Freedom--A Call to Baltimore.
CHAPTER V.
Experience in Baltimore--Education--Purchase of a Wife and two Children--Great Distress of Mind--Generous Assistance--Church Matters.
CHAPTER VI.
A New Movement in Baltimore--Erection of a Meeting House for the African Baptist Church--Heavy Indebtedness--Account of the Enterprise--Personal Troubles.
HISTORY OF THE SARATOGA STREET AFRICAN BAPTIST CHAPEL.
CHAPTER VII.
Account of A Visit to the northern Cities--True Friends.
CHAPTER VIII.
Conclusion--Object of this Book.
END OF THE NARRATIVE.
SERMON.
STATISTICAL REPORT
OF ALL THE
COLORED PROTESTANT CHURCHES AND SABBATH SCHOOLS IN BALTIMORE.
SABBATH SCHOOL REPORT.
(Rendered to the S. S. Union, for 1859.)
THE SARATOGA STREET
INSTITUTE.
Prayer Meeting Hymn Book.
Containing over three hundred Hymns, with many favorite Choruses.
PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
Character Book:
FOR
HIGH SCHOOLS, ACADEMIES, AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
PRICE SIX CENTS.
Price to Teachers: Fifty cts. a dozen.
The First School Book.
Illustrated with numerous Engravings.
PRICE TWELVE CENTS.
The Testimony of a Hundred Witnesses:
Or, the Instrumentalities by which Sinners are brought to Embrace the Religion of Jesus Christ.
PRICE FIFTY CENTS.
The Career of John Mortal,
A MAN WHO ENJOYED THIS LIFE.
Illustrated with numerous Engravings.
PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
Table of Contents.
PART I.
PART II.
PART III.
PART IV.
PART V.
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