Printed Materials, 1536-1992 and undated
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- 4 boxes
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Broadsides, circular letters, newspapers, posters, announcements, original leaves and reproductions from historically significant editions of the Bible, and a wide variety of other ephemeral printed materials, arranged in the following three subseries: Broadsides and Circular Letters; Committee of Privileges; and Other Printed Materials. The first two subseries overlap in both format and subject, the main difference being that the Committee of Privileges materials were received as a discrete gift from FB, whereas the Broadsides and Circular Letters were gathered from numerous accessions of his papers. The Committee of Privileges material focuses mainly on the controversies in the decade after John Wesley's death in 1791. In addition to church conferences and controversies, another recurrent topic in these printed materials is the formation of a Missionary Society in the 1810s, which in turn opens up the topics of slavery, especially in the West Indies, and Methodist support of the abolitionist movement. Includes many single and fragmentary pieces of various printed materials, found at the end of the series.
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