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

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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