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Partially because of his Virginia upbringing, Conway was appointed minister at the Unitarian Church in Washington D.C. at twenty-two. He left after a series of fiery sermons on the immorality of slavery. (By Blake Dickinson)
Source Citation
John d'Entremont, Southern Emancipator: Moncure Daniel Conway, The American Years 1832-1865 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 88.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Estimated
Type
Slavery/Abolition
Relevance
Hidden