A guide for emigrants

by John Mason Peck

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336 pages, Hardcover

First published August 12, 2015

About the author

John Mason Peck (1789-1858) was an abolitionist and Baptist missionary to the western frontier of the United States, largely in Illinois and Missouri, where he helped to found the African Church of St. Louis, and later Second Baptist Church of St. Louis. He also was instrumental in the establishment of the Illinois Baptist Education Society, serving as its first secretary, as well as the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the Illinois State Baptist Convention, and the Western Baptist Historical Society.