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title: 'Jacob Green on Liberty For All'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-11-11
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-jacob-green-on-liberty-for-all
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# Jacob Green on Liberty For All

“Can it be believed that a people contending for liberty should, at the same time, be promoting and supporting slavery?” — [**Jacob Green**](/authors/jacob-green), *A Sermon Delivered at Hanover, (in New-Jersey) April 22d, 1778: Being the Day of Public Fasting and Prayer throughout the United States of America* (1779), p. 12