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1844 November 20 . F. A. Thompson ALS to G. W. McMillan; Lane Seminary, Walnut Hills, Ohio.

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Box 3
Abstract:
Regarding missionary work; anticipates approval to go to India and East Africa as a missionary, and they need more missionaries to travel to Southeast Africa. Recently preached that more ministers should go South to preach to slaveholders. Says that "I am racked, and tormented on the subject of slavery" and that he boarded with a reverend who was"as hot as all the Abolition fires can make him." Dr. [Lyman] Beecher is in Indiana to ordain his son [Charles Beecher].
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Collection

African American and African Diaspora collection, 1729-1970 (majority within 1781-1865)
Total components 346
Items available online Online 252
Last indexed 2024-08-05