Minutes of the Baptist General Committee at their Yearly Meeting Held in the City of Richmond, May 8th, 1790 [manuscript], 1790.

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Minutes of the Baptist General Committee at their Yearly Meeting Held in the City of Richmond, May 8th, 1790 [manuscript], 1790.

Includes John Leland's resolution "Resolved, That slavery, is a violent deprivation of the rights of nature, and inconsistent with a republican government; and therefore recommend it to our Brethren to make use of every legal measure, to extirpate the horrid evil from the land, and pray Almighty God, that our Honourable Legislature may have it in their power, to proclaim the general Jubilee, consistent with the principles of good policy."

1 item on 4 leaves.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Baptists. Virginia. General Committee, 1790.

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Leland, John, 1754-1841

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