Slavery

Renowned Unitarian preacher, thinker, and theologian William E. Channing takes an in-depth look at the issue of slavery in this compelling volume. Written at a time when the United States was still profiting mightily from the fruits of slave labor, Channing presents a multi-faceted moral argument against the practice, as well as a practical model for moving away from a reliance on enslaved workers. This is a treatise on man's duty to rectify the social ail of Slavery, as the nation of United States knew it in 1835. This work, by the Minister Dr. William E. Channing, can be rightly described as an exhortation, speaking of the Eternal Law that inevitably sides with the restoration of the injured. It came from Boston, which was then the center of both the philosophical upheaval against slavery and the den where the Racists claimed new immigrants