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William Ellery Channing papers

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Collection contains a letter requesting money to dispense for a charitable purpose in Boston. The remaining material is Channing's sermon notes. One of the sermons, titled "The Aims of Life," criticizes wealthy slaveholders who occupy the best pews in church, whereas their slaves are much more in need of the Gospel.
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Duke University

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North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

Keywords

  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Boston (Mass.)
  4. Clergy
  5. Massachusetts
  6. Sermons
  7. Slaver
  8. Unitarians

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What is life or rest to me so long as I have a commission direct from God Almighty to act against slavery "Your late purchase of an estate with a view of emancipating the slaves on it is a generous and noble proof of your humanity! Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country." Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them. All men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights of which, when they enter into a state of society, hey cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity! Namely the enjoyment of life and liberty Yes whether on the scaffold high or in the battle's van, the fittest place for man to die is where he dies for man. Annual report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society All men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights of which, when they enter into a state of society, They cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity! Namely the enjoyment of life and liberty One hour of American slavery is fraught with more misery than ages of that which we rose in rebellion to oppose "I don't know what weakness may come over me, but I don't believe I shall ever deny my lord and master, Jesus Christ and I should deny him if I denied my principles against slavery." "I don't know what weakness may come over me, but I don't believe I shall ever deny my lord and master, Jesus Christ and I should deny him if I denied my principles against slavery." It is a debt we owe the purity of religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery! Give me liberty or give me death Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, At the hall, 15 Winter St., [Boston], to Elizabeth Bates Chapman Laugel, Christmas 1855 "I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery!" Notes on Edward Beecher Life of Rev. Thomas James, by Himself Theodore Parker Reminiscences of fugitive-slave law days in Boston Sculpture of Lincoln freeing a slave by Thomas Ball in Park Square Sculpture of Lincoln freeing a slave by Thomas Ball in Park Square Emancipation statue Boston, Mass
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