{"id":1217,"date":"2007-05-25T06:24:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T11:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/1217"},"modified":"2007-05-25T06:24:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T11:24:20","slug":"limitations-of-church-anti-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/limitations-of-church-anti-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Limitations of Church Anti-Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>August 10, 1860<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article begins with a commendation of the American Missionary Association, as a &#8220;thoroughly Anti-Slavery body, which &#8220;bears a vigorous and active testimony against our country&#8217;s great sin..&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 It criticizes the group because &#8220;its alliance with the church exerts upon it such a restraining influence, that it cannot bear to recognize the fact either that the American Church is the great bulwark of slavery, or that the Southern Church is actively and 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