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{{Short description|American missionary and author (1802–1887)}}
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| caption = Engraving from the 1870 edition of Hollis' book ''The hand of god in history''
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1802|08|26}}
| birth_place = [[Newfane, Vermont]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1887|04|07|1802|08|26}}
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| occupation = Pastor, missionary and author
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'''Hollis Read''' (August 26, 1802 – April 7, 1887) was an American missionary, lecturer, pastor, and author. He wrote about religion, India, and Africa as well as about emancipated African Americans after the American Civil War in the United States. He recommended expatriating African Americans to Africa in his influential book ''The Negro Problem Solved, Or, Africa as She Was, as She Is, and as She Shall Be: Her Curse and Her Cure'' published in 1864.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Read,+Hollis,+1802-1887|title=Hollis Read (Read, Hollis, 1802-1887) | The Online Books Page|website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n89673923/|title=Read, Hollis 1802-1887 [WorldCat Identities]}}</ref> It recommended sending freed slaves to Africa after the American Civil War.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7pQRwhJg7rIC&dq=The+Negro+Problem+Solved%2C+Or%2C+Africa+as+She+Was%2C+as+She+Is%2C&pg=PA6|title=Portrait of a Scientific Racist: Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi|first=James G.|last=Hollandsworth|date=November 4, 2008|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=9780807134832|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Early life==
He was born in [[Newfane, Vermont]] and studied at [[Williams College]] and [[Princeton Seminary]].<ref>Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889</ref>

==Career==
In 1833 he led a mission to [[Ahmednagar]], India. He wrote an account of the trip:

<blockquote>I had been there but a few hours when the Chief Magistrate issued an order forbidding any person to take a book from me under penalty of a rupee and a quarter. Consequently, no applications were made during the first day; but about eleven o'clock at night, when all was still, a Brahman came to me secretly and begged a book. I gave him one. He was followed by others. They took whatever I gave them without uttering a word and went away. The next day the threat was unheeded, and the people received books and tracts both in the streets and at my lodgings, without the least fear or hesitation. The people said their rulers had no right to forbid their receiving religious books.<ref>{{cite book |title=Report of the American Mission among the Marathas for 1873 |publisher=Education Society's Press |date=1874 |page=103}}</ref></blockquote>

In 1838, he funded the pulpit for the First Presbyterian Church of Long Island.<ref>{{cite book |title=History of the First Presbyterian Church of Babylon, Long Island, from 1730 to 1912 |page=11 |location=Babylon, N.Y. |publisher=Babylon Publishing Company |date=1902}}</ref> His sermon "The religion of common life" was published in 1856.<ref>{{cite book |publisher=National Preacher |volume=30 |issue=3 |date=March 1936 |title=The religion of common life |page=70}}</ref>

==Selected works==
* {{cite book|last1=Read|first1=Hollis|date=
|title=Journal of a passage to India, 1830
|publisher=|location=|oclc=30756687|ref=noref|author-mask=0}}
* {{cite book|last1=Read|first1=Hollis|date=1836
|title=The Christian Brahmun
|publisher=Leavitt, Lord & Co.; Crocker & Brewster|location=New York; Boston|oclc= 950909356|ol=7097136M|ref=noref|author-mask=0}}
* {{cite book|last1=Read|first1=Hollis|date=1849
|title=The hand of God in history
|volume=1|orig-year=1848|edition=1849|publisher=H. Huntington|location=Hartford|oclc=715413|ol=6343017M|ref=noref|author-mask=0}}
* {{cite book|last1=Read|first1=Hollis|date=1859
|title=The hand of God in history
|volume=2|orig-year=1856|edition=1859
|publisher=H.E. Robins and Co.|location=Hartford|oclc=1157156096|ol=7072406M|ref=noref|author-mask=0}}
* {{cite book|last1=Read|first1=Hollis|date=1864
|title=The Negro problem solved: or, Africa as she was, as she is, and as she shall be; her curse and her cure.
|publisher=A. A. Constantine|location=New York|oclc=1082457424|ol=33194187M|ref=noref|author-mask=0}}
* {{cite book|last1=Read|first1=Hollis|date=1875
|title=The God of this world; the footprints of Satan: or, The devil in history (The counterpart of "God in history")
|publisher=Maclear & Co.|location=Toronto|oclc=38069623|ol=23438717M|ref=noref|author-mask=0}}

==References==
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==External links==
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