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Aunt Phillis’s Cabin

CHAPTER XII
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There is Unitarianism, that faith that would undermine the perfect structure of the Christian religion; that says Christ is a man, when the Scriptures style him 'Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.' Why, it is hardly tolerated at the South.

Have you any right to claim for yourself superior holiness?
None whatever.
"There never was any thing so perfectly false (I cannot help referring to it again,) as that religion is discouraged among our slaves.

It is precisely the contrary.

Most of them have the same opportunities of attending worship as their owners.

They generally prefer the Methodist and Baptist denominations; they worship with the whites, or they have exclusive occasions for themselves, which they prefer.


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