1850 J. H. THORNWELL. The Rights and Duties of Masters Over their Slaves. Rare Presbyterian. Preaching especially in the run up

especially in the run up to the Civl War

it is presented as the work of a single author

Worth research and publication

and Prophetical Offices

1850 J. H. THORNWELL. The Rights and Duties of Masters Over their Slaves. Rare Presbyterian. Preaching especially in the run upVery desirable sermon preached at Charleston, South Carolina, the great slave port of the South. Even today, 25% of American black persons can trace their ancestry to that few miles of beach and docks. Thornwell was the Presbyterian pastor there and preached in favor of the Secession of the South and of the institution of chattel slavery. He did take a more conservative tack than some though, still maintaining that the "negro race" was made in the