Rare 1861 Civil War Era American Missionary Anti-Slavery Abolitionist Magazine

  
The American Missionary Magazine: Feb. Created in New York in the decades leading up the Civil War, the American Missionary Association was a Christian organization with an ambitious goal: dismantling slavery. The first board, which included black members, strongly affirmed that Christianity required taking a stand against the practice that they later termed as "abhorrent" and a "dishonor" to the faith. In the same year as their founding, 1846, they began publishing The American Missionary Magazine, a journal that played a major role in shaping the abolitionist movement into a powerful social and political force.

2, was released in February 1961, a mere two months before the Civil War, and it it captured the. American Missionary Association scathing indictment of the culture of slavery: In no period of this country's history, or the history of the church in this land, was there more need of a general and thorough revival of religion than at the present time. Impiety stalks abroad with its brazen front; disunion boldly proclaims its treasonable schemes; the advocates and apologists of slavery utter, from Southern, and even from Northern pulpits, their unscriptural and inhuman arguments; professors of religion applaud and circulate extensively pro-slavery discourses, and even apply to a Jewish Rabbi, to expound to a Christian community the Old Testament, in favor of slavery; the Sabbath is desecrated throughout the Country; the religious press contains a deplorable amount of uncharitableness and error; civil war is openly threatened, by an influential portion of the South; the whole nation is assuming a warlike attitude, while the government is criminally supine. In addition to multiple articles discussing the tensions between North and South, the magazine also includes several other fascinating historical pieces, including an article about Napoleon III (grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte) and another about the arrival of missionaries in Siam, where they were greeted by none other than the famed Dr. Dan Bradley, the man who played a major role in introducing Western technology to Thailand.

This fascinating piece of history, capturing one of the most seminal periods in American history, is now almost impossible to find, as most copies of the roughly 20,000 circulated have long since been destroyed. It would make an incredible addition to a Civil War collection, particularly one focused on the abolitionist and anti-slavery movement. Carefully consider the feedback sellers receive, particularly when they have received negative comments.

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