Very desirable sermon preached at Charleston, South Carolina, the great slave port of the South. Even today, 25% of American black persons can trace their ancestry to that few miles of beach and docks. Thornwell was the Presbyterian pastor there and preached in favor of the Secession of the South and of the institution of chattel slavery.
He did take a more conservative tack than some though, still maintaining that the "negro race" was made in the image of God, and not mere beasts, as some argued. In the present, he attempts to enforce Christian principles inside the structure of chattel slavery, a project doomed to fail.
Thornwell, J. H. The Rights and Duties of Masters. A Sermon Preached at the Dedication of a Church, Erected in Charleston, S. C., for the Benefit and Instruction of the Coloured Population. Charleston, S. C. Steam-Power Press of Walker & James. 1850. 51pp.
A good + copy, bound in wraps, lightly shaken, with generally bright pages. Removed from a larger sammelband. Complete as issued.
