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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
—and, at a later day, by the amiable enthusiast Anthony Benezet. But did not Christianity enfranchise its converts? The Christian world of that day almost universally revered in Christ the impersonation of the divine wisdom. Could an intelligent being, who, through the Mediator, had participated in the Spirit of God, and, Chap. XXIV.} by his own inward experience, had become conscious of a Supreme Existence, and of relations between that Existence and humanity, be rightfully held in Berkeley's Works, III. 247. Bacon's Laws of Maryland. Laws o S. Carolina, 1712. Dalcho. 94, &c. bondage? From New England to Carolina, the notion prevailed, that being baptized is inconsistent with a state of slavery; and this early apprehension proved a main obstacle to the culture and conversion of these poor people. The sentiment was so deep and so general, that South Carolina in 1712, Maryland in 1715, Virginia repeatedly from 1667 to Hen. II. 260; III. 448, &c. 1748, gave a negative to it