Leadership Change and Theological Shifts: John Holt Rice and the Spirituality of the Church
…white and 100 black members.6 Rice published many articles denouncing the enslavement of human beings. The article for which he is best known appeared as “Thoughts on Slavery” in The Virginia Evangelical and Literary Magazinein 1819. Rice was clear: “It is to be generally admitted that slavery is the greatest political evil which has ever entered the United States.”7 Immediate…
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