Let the Monster Perish
In a time of division, we can have no better prophetic voice to frame today's discussions of justice and freedom than a one-legged fugitive slave who came to a Capitol without a Dome to tell how the Constitution could be made more perfect, in the name of God.-from a letter sent by the President of the Presbyterian Historical Society to the President of the Maryland State SenateIn February 1865, just days after the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment banning slavery, Presbyterian pastor and abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet spoke before the U.S. Congress, becoming the first African American to do so. Garnet's speech, titled Let the Monster P…
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- ISBN: 978-0-664-26629-5
- EAN: 9780664266295
- Produktnummer: 34419742
- Verlag: Westminster John Knox Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 46 S.
- Masse: H17.8 cm x B12.7 cm x D0.2 cm 54 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 54
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