On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Cookman was, that whenever he met slaveholders he labored faithfully with them, as a religious duty, to induce them to liberate their bondmen.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass recounts how Reverend George Cookman consistently urged slaveholders to emancipate their enslaved people, viewing it as a religious duty.
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