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Alexander Johnson
Person Name: Johnson Composer of "INDIAN CONVERT" in The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.)
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William Apess
1789 - 1839 Person Name: William Ahes Author of "In de dark wood, no Indian nigh" in Songs of Zion. 8th ed. William Apess was a Methodist minister, and part Pequot. He was one of the leaders of the Mashpee Revolt in 1833-1834 and an advocate for Native American rights. The hymn "The Indian's Prayer" appears at the end of his biography A Son of the Forest.
Dianne Shapiro, from Carpe Librum Books (https://www.carpelibrumbooks.com/not-william-apess-hymn-the-indians-prayer-ca-1835) (accessed 10/3/2022)
William Apess
Thomas Daniel Cowdell
Author of "Indian Hymn" Thomas Daniel Cowdell was born in London. He emigrated to Halifax in 1789 where he opened a dry goods store anwas a lay preacher in the Methodist Church. "An Indian Hymn" appeared in the 1811 edition of his book The Nova Scotia minstrel. It was reprinted in an 1814 edition of The Youth's Magazine and then in dozens of publications in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Dianne Shapiro, from Carpe Librum Books (https://www.carpelibrumbooks.com/not-william-apess-hymn-the-indians-prayer-ca-1835) (accessed 10/3/2022)
Thomas Daniel Cowdell
