1852 J. H. THORNWELL. Report before South Carolina Presbytery on the Subject of Slavery. Hymns though of course including a

though of course including a pair that were not by him

his early works are difficult to come by

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1852 J. H. THORNWELL. Report before South Carolina Presbytery on the Subject of Slavery. Hymns though of course including aAn excessively rare work by James Henley Thornwell, Presbyterian minister at Charleston, South Caroline, slave capital of the South. In it, he attempts to lay out a defense of slavery against the "fanatical" claims of the abolitionists, and argues that slavery exists on many plantations in good, dignified order. Thornwell's legacy has been the subject of significant debate, some seeing him as a standard pro slavery Southerner, but with enough scruples