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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 April 2014
    29 August 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139382090
    9781108053150
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139382090
    Dimensions:
    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.15kg, 108 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, African Studies, History, African History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, African Studies, History, African History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
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    In the years preceding the American Civil War, religion was at the heart of the debate over slavery. William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) had rejected the strict Calvinism of his background to become the leading Unitarian spokesman and preacher, and in later life he began to address the subject of slavery. Published in 1836, this work was Channing's most substantial contribution to the debate, revealing the real difficulties men such as Channing had in questioning a practice with which they had grown up. He vacillates between contempt for the institution and empathy for the slaveholders, writing, 'I do not intend to pass sentence on the character of the slave-holder.' He sees black slaves as humans, but not of equal status with white people. The final chapter is particularly prescient: 'There is a great dread … that the union of the States may be dissolved by the conflict about slavery.'

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