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Slavery Among Church Members

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 6, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 15.

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Slavery Among Church Members

THE number of slaves owned by church members at the South before the war commenced, was about as follows: Ministers and members of the Methodist Church South and North, owned 219,000 slaves; the Baptist do. 125,000; the Reformed Baptists 101,000; the Presbyterians, old and new school, 77,000; the Episcopalians 88,500; all other denominations 55,000,—the Congregationalist and Advent Churches are as bodies free. Total, 600,000.—Sel.