Minutes of the Severn's Valley Baptist Church
Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Query about Slavery

23 Jan 1796
"Quare - is slavery oppression or not[?]"

"The quare being taken up was answered in the affirmative it was oppressive."

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27 Feb 1796
"Question - can we as a church have fellowship with those that hold with the riteousness (sic) of pertetual slavery[?]"

"It was answered in the affirmative that they could not."

[From Church Minutes in the collection of the Kentucky Historical Library, Frankfort, KY, 1953. By James K. Duvall.]

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