Essay on Slavery: As Connected with the Moral and Providential Government of God; and as an Element of Church Organization. With Miscellaneous Reflections on the Subject of Slavery"Thoughts on Methodist church fellowship for Christian slaveholders, and on abolition in general. Although arguing here at length that slavery is immoral and unchristian, Taylor also posits that the Church as an organization cannot take an official stand on its legality due to the necessity of maintaining separation between religious and civil matters." (PBRM description). |
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