THE ROLE OF PREACHERS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

The Role of Preachers in the American Revolution

The Role of Preachers in the American Revolution

The earliest critics of slavery opposed the institution not for political reasons but because they believed slavery to be morally wrong. In 1785, during the revolution period in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, preachers Richard Allen and Absalom Jones ministered to the slaves and triggered the will to have a free homeland. Together, they wrote about their work in a pamphlet that was also an antislavery diatribe. Other early antislavery pamphleteers who were preachers included Daniel Coker of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, ...