Subtitle: The Protestanism and Civilization of the United States.
Title: Provincial Freeman - May 31, 1856
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer expresses his views on the war-like atrocities committed in the name of religion on people of African descent in the southern U.S.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
Subtitle: Is the M. E. Church of the North Pro-Slavery?
Title: Voice of the Fugitive - June 18, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The editor responds to a reader who took exception to an article accusing northern Methodist Episcopal ministers of slave-holding. This is just one more way that the Church seems to condone slavery.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page