Henry Ward Beecher: “Now tell me whether there is any preaching of the Gospel to the slave…”

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Now tell me whether there is any preaching of the Gospel to the slave, or whether there can be, and he yet remain a slave?

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher questions the possibility of preaching the Gospel to enslaved individuals while they remain in bondage.

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Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.

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Henry Ward Beecher: “Now tell me whether there is any preaching of the Gospel to the slave, or whether there can be, and he yet remain a…”