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| | History, Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles (1883), by Rev. Parker Pillsbury, Abolitionist Activist |
 | | Note: Rogers was an early writer on the unconstitutionality of slavery, as early as January 1837, an example thereafter followed by Smith (1840), Mellen (1841), Spooner (1845), Shaw (1846), James (1849), Tiffany (1849), Goodell (1852), Lincoln (1854), Douglass (1860), as per list cited infra, p 75). |
 | | Rogers were active and honored members in the Congregational church at Plymouth, when they espoused the cause of the slave. |
 | | But when they demanded that those in bonds in their own country should be remembered even "as bound with them," they were repulsed as disorderly, contumacious disturbers of the peace of the church and its minister, who, at that time, was among the most virulent opposers of the whole anti-slavery enterprise. |
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