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The South: Her Peril, and Her Duty: A Discourse, Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, on Thursday, November 29, 1860

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Thanksgiving sermon (Nov 29, 1860) by B. M. Palmer urging the Southern states to regard slavery as a providential trust and to preserve it amid the national crisis.
Archive ⬩ Race Relations and Slavery, Sermons
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Benjamin Morgan Palmer was an American Presbyterian minister and theologian who led First Presbyterian Church in New Orleans for nearly half a century and served as the first Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States when it formed in 1861. Recognized as one of the most powerful and eloquent preachers of his generation, Palmer’s pulpit ministry drew wide attention throughout the South.

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