1850 BAPTISTS & SLAVERY. Very Scarce Work that Led to the Creation of the Southern Baptist Convention. Civil War Intended to Carry the Reader

Intended to Carry the Reader somewhat Farther Onward in the Spiritual Life

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Torrey’s work]

A Journey from Babylon to Jerusalem

vastly popular and published four years before the framing of the United States Constitution in 1787

1850 BAPTISTS & SLAVERY. Very Scarce Work that Led to the Creation of the Southern Baptist Convention. Civil War Intended to Carry the ReaderAn excessively rare book produced by the American Baptist Free Mission Society (ABFMS), an abolitionist organization founded by Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor in the 1840s, which actively opposed slavery by refusing slaveholders and their money be accepted by Baptists, advocating for equal opportunity in education (like New York Central College), and contributing to the broader anti slavery movement within the Baptist tradition before the major church split, i.