PRESBYTERIANISM AND SLAVERY. BY OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. PUBLISHED FOR THE USE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. PITTSBURGH, 1836.
Pittsburgh: [Printed by Alexander Jaynes, Irwin's Row, Market Street], 1836. 8pp. Disbound and lightly toned. Good+.
The 1836 General Assembly received petitions "from many members of the church that the Assembly would bear their testimony against the practice of slaveholding as a SIN." Therefore, "it has been thought proper to reprint the testimonies and acts of former Assemblies on the same subject, from the official Minutes, without note or comment."
Prior Assemblies, from 1767 to 1818, worried about Slavery without an unequivocal call for its abolition. Approval of "general principles in favour of universal liberty," education for slaves to prepare them for liberty, admonitions to treat slaves kindly, expressions of "the deepest concern" for "any vestiges of slavery which may exist in our country."
The 1818 Assembly, however, was unambiguous in calling Slavery "a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature; as utterly inconsistent with the law of God." All are urged to "efface this blot."
Not in Sabin or LCP. Not at online sites of AAS, Boston Athenaeum, LCP. OCLC 32617306 [5- Oberlin, Peabody Essex, Princeton, LCP, Presby. Hist. Soc.] as of July 2025. Item #41049
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