1793 KENTUCKY SLAVERY. Rare Sermon Reproving Birth of Slavery at Kentucky's Statehood. Abolition Albert Taylor Bledsoe [1809-1877]

Albert Taylor Bledsoe [1809-1877]

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1793 KENTUCKY SLAVERY. Rare Sermon Reproving Birth of Slavery at Kentucky's Statehood. Abolition Albert Taylor Bledsoe [1809-1877]Scarce 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