Robinson, Stuart:

$500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

SLAVERY AS RECOGNIZED IN THE MOSAIC CIVIL LAW; RECOGNIZED ALSO, AND ALLOWED, IN THE ABRAHAMIC, MOSAIC, AND CHRISTIAN CHURCH, BEING ONE OF A SERIES OF SABBATH EVENING DISCOURSES ON THE LAW OF ... A relatively scarce pro-slavery discourse written by a Kentucky minister living in exile in Toronto. Rev. Stuart Robinson was a Kentucky Presbyterian minister and newspaper editor who began publication of the True Presbyterian in Louisville in 1861; the paper was twice censored and shut down, and in 1863, Robinson moved operations to Toronto, where he remained until 1866, after the close of the Civil War. He wrote a letter to President Lincoln in 1865, denouncing the closing of his newspaper as an outrage on the liberty of the press and of religion. He continued to preach and publish after the war, distinguishing himself in the Presbyterian Church. This copy bears the contemporary ownership inscription of James Park of Knoxville, Tennessee, another Presbyterian minister.

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