The article reprinted here originally appeared in the Pennsylvania Journal of March 8, 1775, six weeks prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution at the battles of Lexington and Concord. Historians have in recent years determined that its author was Samuel Hopkins, the New England theologian and abolitionist pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island.In 1776, Hopkins wrote a lengthy abolitionist pamphlet, which he d…
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