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Unknown [Resolution of a church refusing to receive slaveholders in the pulpit or communion]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06593.12 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: New York Type: Manuscript document Date: circa 1841 Pagination: 1 p. ; 6.7 x 19.8 cm. Order a Copy

Church is unspecified. Based on GLC06593.11, possibly a Baptist Church. Circa date based on GLC06593.09. Location based on GLC06593.10.

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