1851 FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT. Christians to Disobey the Government - Inscribed to Fellow Abolitionist Puritan Ebenezer Turell His Book

Ebenezer Turell His Book

Many dissenters worshipped in an established church on Sunday and also with a dissenting congregation outside the 5 mile village limit in the afternoon or evening

unpublished letter

Important first American edition of one of the true classics of the 18th century

she could heartily join

1851 FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT. Christians to Disobey the Government - Inscribed to Fellow Abolitionist Puritan Ebenezer Turell His BookA superb artifact and document issued during the high stakes season of political and spiritual resistance in Massachusetts following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The author, Jacob Gilbert Forman, was a minister in West Bridgewater who had taken a particularly uncompromising stand against the Act. In the present discourse, he explicitly compareds contemporary abolitionists to early Christian martyrs. While he did not attempt to equate