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His monumental "Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans, with an Address to Slave-holders," was published in 1776.

For additional information as to the antislavery attitude of the church at this period, and especially that of Stiles, see review of "The Minister's Wooing," by L.Bacon ("New Englander," vol.xviii., p.

145).
[204:2] I have not been able to find a copy of this poem, the character of which, however, is well known.

The son of Aaron Cleveland, William, was a silversmith at Norwich, among whose grandsons may be named President Grover Cleveland, and Aaron Cleveland Cox, later known as Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe.
[204:3] Dr.A.Green's Life of his father, in "Monthly Christian Advocate." [206:1] Park, "Memoir of Hopkins," p.

112.
[206:2] Buckley, "The Methodists," Appendix, pp.


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