The American Churches
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The American Churches: The Bulwarks of American Slavery The following work is reproduced without apology. It is needed as authentic anti-slavery history, and as showing beyond all dispute who were most zealous defenders of American slavery, and the most virulent opponents of the active abolitionists. The author, Hon. James G. Birney, the only truly antislavery man ever nominated for the presidency while slavery lasted, was a native of Kentucky, and connected both by birth and marriage with many of its first families. His education completed, he spent fifteen years in Huntsville, Alabama, a successful lawyer, and for a time solicitor-general, besides being tendered a seat on the bench of the supreme court. He was appointed by the legislature to nominate, at his sole discretion, the faculty of the State University. Returning to Kentucky, he was called to the Professorship of Political Economy, Rhetoric, and Belles-Lettres in Centre College at Danville in that state. And those who knew him testified that "his character and Christian influence were quite equal to his public standing." But public and private virtues, intellectual eminence, and the highest lay official positions in the Presbyterian church, were all lost in becoming a repentant slaveholder and an active, earnest abolitionist. About the commencement of the wondrous career of William Lloyd Garrison and the establishment by him of The Liberator in Boston, Mr. Theodore D. Weld, one of our most eloquent and powerful anti-slavery lecturers and writers, encountered Mr. Birney while yet a slaveholder, and held some searching discussions with him and his minister, also a slaveholder, on the right of one man to hold absolute property in his fellow-man. The argument began with the minister in the absence of Birney, who welcomed Weld to the parsonage till he should return. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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