1864 THOMAS SCOTT. Abolitionist's Commentary on Scripture. Influenced John Newton, Wilberforce, etc. Ephemera The Astor Place Riot was

The Astor Place Riot was a violent episode involving thousands of people confronting a detachment of uniformed militia in the streets of New York City on May 10

Studley (Anti-slavery activist & theologian)

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1864 THOMAS SCOTT. Abolitionist's Commentary on Scripture. Influenced John Newton, Wilberforce, etc. Ephemera The Astor Place Riot wasA very attractive set of the complete commentaries of Thomas Scott [1747 1821], long time friend of John Newton, under whose sway he became an evangelical. He was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society, influenced William Wilberforce and William Carey, was a noted abolitionist, etc., It is perhaps not accidental that his commentary was published in the heat of the Civil War, just after the Emancipation Proclamation, and that it was known