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Letter from Abraham Shearman to Thomas Howland

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Remarks on slavery: he feels that the time may come soon when the Society will have to appear again before the public "as friends and advocates of the oppressed African race, and at the same time, declaring our belief of the utter inconsistency of Slavery with the benign precepts and spirit of the Christian religion." On how it should be done, he has not formed an opinion. Tract Society. Elisha Bates and his conversion to "water baptism."
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  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Bates, Elisha 1781 1861
  3. Moral And Ethical Aspects
  4. Slaver
  5. Slavery

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