Excerpt from A History of the M. E. Church in the South-West, From 1844 to 1864: Comprising the Martyrdom of Bewley and Others, Persecutions of the M. E. Church, and Its Reorganization, Etc

After the year 1800 of the Christian Era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States. (ordinance of 1787, unanimously approved by Con gress, and signed by Washington.)

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