Freeborn Garrettson: The Preacher Who Was Jailed for Daring to Call the Enslavement of Africans a Sin

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During slavery in America, religion was often used as a tool of control. Many preachers visited plantations to tell enslaved Africans to obey their masters and accept their suffering as God’s will. But Freeborn Garrettson, a Methodist preacher from Maryland, refused to be part of that lie. He preached a message of freedom, not submission, […]
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