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Northern clergy increasingly preached against slavery in the 1830s. In the 1840s, slavery began to divide denominations. [162] This, in turn, weakened social ties between the North and South, allowing the nation to become even more polarized in the 1850s. [163] [164] The issue of slavery in the United States came to an end with the American ...
Abolitionist writings, such as "A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument" (1845) by George Bourne, [23] and "God Against Slavery" (1857) by George B. Cheever, [24] used the Bible, logic and reason extensively in contending against the institution of slavery, and in particular the chattel form of it as seen in the South. In Cheever's speech ...
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...
Beginning in the Middle Ages, the Christian understanding of slavery reflected significant internal conflict and endured dramatic change. Ultimately, the concept of slavery as private property was condemned by the Church, which classified it as the theft of human rights, a concept of classical liberalism that dominated most of the Western world ...
At other times, Christian groups worked against slavery. The seventh-century Saint Eloi used his vast wealth to purchase British and Saxon slaves in groups of 50 to 100 in order to set them free. [82] The Quakers in particular were early leaders of abolitionism, and in keeping with this tradition they denounced slavery at least as early as 1688.
Catholicism first came to the territories now forming the United States just before the Protestant Reformation (1517) with the Spanish conquistadors and settlers in present-day Florida (1513) and the southwest. The first Christian worship service held in the current United States was a Catholic Mass celebrated in Pensacola, Florida (St. Michael ...
The first federal act taken against slavery during the war occurred on 16 April 1862, when Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, which abolished slavery in Washington, D.C. A few months later, on June 19, Congress banned slavery in all federal territories, fulfilling Lincoln's 1860 campaign promise. [108]
John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism, as it branched from the Church of England (Anglicanism) in the 18th century, two centuries after its origins in the 16th century Protestant Reformation movement, was appalled by the importation and establishment in 1619 in the Colony of Virginia and subsequent growth of slavery in the North American thirteen colonies of British America, in the ...