[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. JONES, Charles C. The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States. Savannah: Thomas Purse, 1842. 8vo. (Front free endpaper torn away). Original blind-stamped brown cloth (spine partially perished, rubbing to extremities). RARE FIRST EDITION. Jones was a Georgia plantation owner and a Presbyterian minister. Here, he insists upon the moral obligation to teach Christianity to the enslaved, without questioning the morality of slavery. The first hundred pages are devoted to a history of American slavery. Afro-Americana 5378; Howes J193; Sabin 36470; not in Blockson.