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William Ellery Channing
Birth: 4-7-1780
Death: 10-2-1842
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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"
Letter References
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, June 14, 1852
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 3, 1852
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, December 29, 1851
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, January 1, 1854
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, October 22, 1845
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, June 29, 1845
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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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