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• Title:Society for the Conversion &c. of Negroe Slaves.
  
• Production:Great Britain, ca. 1820.
  
• Physical Description:1 seal : wax, with paper backing ; 6.4 cm in diameter
  
• Links:View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: BV4914 .S63 Flat
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Notes:Title from the seal's inscription. The seal also bears the date 1793, the year of the Society's founding.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:The Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands was chartered in 1794 to administer the charitable fund willed by Hon. Robert Boyle in 1691. In 1823 the society was incorporated and the name changed to the Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negroe Slaves in the British West India Islands. Cf. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time (entry 85878).
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands.
  Christian education--West Indies, British--Societies, etc.
  Enslaved persons--West Indies, British--Religion.
  
• Genre/Form:Seals (marks)