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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: June 20, 2020
Caption: John Leland
Additional Description: Throughout the history of the Baptist faith, there was considerable debate about slavery. Famously, John Leland, a Baptist pastor in Culpeper from 1777-1779, stated during the August 8, 1789, General Committee of Baptists that:
Resolved, that slavery is a violent deprivation of the rights of nature and inconsistent with a republican government, and therefore recommend it to our brethren, to make use of every legal measure to extirpate this horrible evil from the land; and pray almighty God that our honorable legislature may have it in their power to proclaim the great Jubilee, consistent with principles of good policy.

Portrait from The Writings of the late Elder John Leland by L.F. Greene
Submitted: July 13, 2020, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p529746
File Size: 0.326 Megabytes

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