A Discourse on the Subject of American Slavery

Ballou's public enlistment in the antislavery cause: a discourse delivered at Mendon in 1837, when abolitionism was still a mobbed and hated minority position among the churches. He argues the absolute sinfulness of slaveholding from the same first principles — the inviolable worth of every human being under God — that grounded his universalism and his nonresistance.

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