1852 J. H. THORNWELL. Report before South Carolina Presbytery on the Subject of Slavery. Miracles by Edward Craig

by Edward Craig

It includes the often misprinted XIIIth Amendment

would also end up imprisoned in Newgate for religious dissent on multiple occasions

slaves among the Africans unlike the slavery imposed by "civilized" men

Early Piety

1852 J. H. THORNWELL. Report before South Carolina Presbytery on the Subject of Slavery. Miracles by Edward CraigAn excessively rare work by James Henley Thornwell, Presbyterian minister at Charleston, South Caroline, slave capital of the South. In it, he attempts to lay out a defense of slavery against the "fanatical" claims of the abolitionists, and argues that slavery exists on many plantations in good, dignified order. Thornwell's legacy has been the subject of significant debate, some seeing him as a standard pro slavery Southerner, but with enough scruples