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The Confessional Presbyterian Archive is a curated digital library dedicated to preserving and promoting the writings of 17th–20th century Presbyterian pastors, teachers, and leaders. Featuring thousands of searchable texts, biographies, and historical resources, the archive provides direct access to the primary-source materials of American Presbyterianism.
Lorette: The History of Louise, Daughter of a Canadian Nun, Exhibiting the Interior Female Convents
Historical tale set in Lower Canada. Diganu's manuscripts recount rescuing Lorette and expose convent life, Catholic ritual, and social hypocrisy.
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An Address to the Presbyterian Church, Enforcing the Duty of Excluding All Slaveholders from the “Communion of the Saints”
1833 Presbyterian address condemns church tolerance of slavery as 'man-stealing' and hypocrisy. Urges excommunication of slaveholders and calls for church discipline.
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Picture of Slavery in the United States of America
An 1834 abolitionist pamphlet denouncing American slavery and condemning slaveholding Christians as hypocritical, immoral, and contrary to Gospel and natural law.
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Man-Stealing and Slavery Denounced by the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches, Together with an Address to All the Churches
1834 pamphlet by George Bourne condemning Presbyterian and Methodist complicity in man-stealing and slavery, urging abolition and church discipline.
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The Abrogation of the Seventh Commandment by the American Churches
1835 abolitionist pamphlet indicting American churches and Christian women for enabling slavery’s sexual abuses, violating the seventh commandment. Urges immediate abolition.
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The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk
First-person exposé alleging sexual abuse, murder, coercion, and institutional secrecy in Montreal convents; accuses priests and superiors and urges public investigation.
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Slavery Illustrated in Its Effects upon Woman and Domestic Society
1837 abolitionist tract exposing slavery's sexual and domestic abuses of women, denouncing church complicity, and urging Northern Christian women to act against the system.
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Modern Protestant Church Courts Unmasked
1838 polemic exposing corruption in modern Protestant church courts, denouncing priestcraft, antichristian authority, and ecclesiastical despotism. Urges believers to resist such tyranny.
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Illustrations of Popery: The “Mystery of Iniquity” Unveiled
1838 polemic 'Illustrations of Popery' critiques Roman Catholic doctrine, papal power, Jesuitism and alleged persecutions, interpreting them via Revelation xvii–xviii.
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A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument
An 1845 condensed anti-slavery Bible argument by a Virginian refuting pro-slavery readings. It argues slavery is man-stealing and a perversion of Scripture's spirit and law.
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The American Text-Book of Popery
1846 polemic exposing 'Popery' and Jesuit influence, arguing the Roman Catholic Church and papal authority threaten American civil and religious liberty.
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A Complete Hebrew and English Critical Pronouncing Dictionary on a New and Improved Plan
Introduction to a Hebrew–English critical pronouncing dictionary urging study of Hebrew to grasp Scripture's original meaning. Emphasizes importance for ministers, pronunciation, and exegesis.
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Rev. George Bourne, the Pioneer of American Antislavery
Biography of Rev. George Bourne, pioneer of immediate, uncompensated abolition in America, recounting his life, writings, persecutions, and influence on Garrison.
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