A Kentucky Protest Against Slavery: Slavery Inconsistent with Justice and Good Policy (1792)

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Rev. David Rice’s 1792 Kentucky speech condemns slavery as unjust, cruel, and contrary to divine law, family bonds, and good policy, urging relief and emancipation.

David Rice (1733 – 1816) was an American Presbyterian minister and pioneering frontier evangelist who helped organize early Kentucky churches, presbyteries, and served as a key leader in founding Transylvania Seminary. Known for his tireless evangelistic and church-planting efforts across the frontier, Rice played a formative role in establishing Presbyterianism in Kentucky, earning him the enduring nickname “The Apostle to Kentucky.”

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