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Mentioned in 18450629FMS_LMW
According to Encyclopedia Britannica
"U.S. author and moralist, Congregationalist and, later, Unitarian clergyman. Known as the “apostle of Unitarianism,” Channing was a leading figure in the development of New England Transcendentalism and of organized attempts in the U.S. to eliminate slavery, drunkenness, poverty, and war."

FMS writes: 
"Dr. Channing  on the slavery question to him this afternoon discovering as I presumed would be the case that his southern associates had some what dimmed his perception of that subject I have read with sister on my lap in a state"  

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Mentioned in 18450629FMS_LMW According to Encyclopedia Britannica "U.S. author and moralist, Congregationalist and, later, Unitarian clergyman. Known as the “apostle of Unitarianism,” Channing was a leading figure in the development of New England Transcendentalism and of organized attempts in the U.S. to eliminate slavery, drunkenness, poverty, and war." FMS writes: "Dr. Channing on the slavery question to him this afternoon discovering as I presumed would be the case that his southern associates had some what dimmed his perception of that subject I have read with sister on my lap in a state"
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