1793 KENTUCKY SLAVERY. Rare Sermon Reproving Birth of Slavery at Kentucky's Statehood. ZZAutographsandArtifacts " not known from any

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Being an Answer to a Pamphlet

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Protestant

1793 KENTUCKY SLAVERY. Rare Sermon Reproving Birth of Slavery at Kentucky's Statehood. ZZAutographsandArtifacts " not known from anyScarce first British edition of Kentucky's first formal protest against becoming America's next "slave state." The sermon was delivered by Rev. David Rice during the first Kentucky constitutional convention, while legislators for the new state were framing their new state guiding documents. Much like Benjamin Franklin's plea to the Congress just a few years earlier, the counsel to do right fell almost universally on deaf ears. Preceded by the