Letter from Banna to Lewis Tappan

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Fragment of a letter from Banna to Lewis Tappan. Transcription reads: Dear Sir, Mr L. Tappan, I will write you a few lines because I love you very much and I wish I thank you very much because you make us free and Mr Adams he made us free and I wish to pray to the great God to send us to our home and he will sent missionary to them that they may teach them about the Lord Jesus Christ who has died for us he want all men to be good and love him very much indeed my friend I want you to send us now home and he want all men to be good and love him he sent his son into the world to save us from going down to hell all men have some work to do great God he deliver us from hands of wicked men from Havanas men great God he make us free and he will send us to the Africa Country and he will sent the Bible into Africa that they may repent of there sins that they may love the great God and he will take them up to Heaven when they die there they...

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Title: Letter from Banna to Lewis Tappan
Author: Banna
Addressee: Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873
Date Created: 1841-03-12
Description: Fragment of a letter from Banna to Lewis Tappan. Transcription reads: Dear Sir, Mr L. Tappan, I will write you a few lines because I love you very much and I wish I thank you very much because you make us free and Mr Adams he made us free and I wish to pray to the great God to send us to our home and he will sent missionary to them that they may teach them about the Lord Jesus Christ who has died for us he want all men to be good and love him very much indeed my friend I want you to send us now home and he want all men to be good and love him he sent his son into the world to save us from going down to hell all men have some work to do great God he deliver us from hands of wicked men from Havanas men great God he make us free and he will send us to the Africa Country and he will sent the Bible into Africa that they may repent of there sins that they may love the great God and he will take them up to Heaven when they die there they...
Topical Subject(s): Amistad (Schooner)
Slave insurrections--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Slave trade--America--History
Correspondence
Name Subject(s): Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873
Geographical Subject(s): Westville (Ct.)
Publisher: Tulane University Digital Library
Amistad Research Center
Language: eng
Identifier (local): ama0433
Extent: Letter, 4 p.
Type of Resource: text
Source: Doc. No. F1-4926, American Missionary Association Archives, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
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