---
title: 'Our Country’s Obligation to Emancipate'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'James William Shaw'
date: 1861-11-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Church and State'
- 'Slavery'
scriptures:
- 'Leviticus 25'
- 'Isaiah 61'
- 'Proverbs 22'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/shaw-1861-our-countrys-obligation-to-emancipate
---

# Our Country’s Obligation to Emancipate

1861 sermon urging national emancipation of slaves. Appeals to Jubilee (Lev. 25) and Isa. 61, Providence, moral law, and America's founding pledges to demand abolition.

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