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    Lewis Tappan

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    There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel. ↗


    — Lewis Tappan

    #gospel #little #much #now #theology

    If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work. ↗


    — Lewis Tappan

    #blessed #continue #fall #hand #others

    If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice. ↗


    — Lewis Tappan

    #beat #custom #draw #everybody #excitement

    Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with. ↗


    — Lewis Tappan

    #body #company #especially #flesh #forms

    Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo. ↗


    — Lewis Tappan

    #most #prisoners #told

    The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves. ↗


    — Lewis Tappan

    #among #orderly #peaceable #prisoners #themselves

    The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated. ↗


    — Lewis Tappan

    #curiosity #prisoners #see

    The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa. ↗


    — Lewis Tappan

    #beneficial #brethren #colored #country #effect

    The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on. ↗


    — Lewis Tappan

    #before #clothes #deal #eyed #good

    These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character. ↗


    — Lewis Tappan

    #been #character #exceedingly #excited #great






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    William Ellery Channing a Unitarian minister became Tappan’s pastor. Lewis Tappan initially supported the American Colonization Society (ACS) which promoted sending freed blacks from the United States to Africa based on the assumption that this was their homeland regardless of where they were born. Unwilling to reduce his commitment to U.

    He ensured the acquisition of high-quality lawyers for the captives which led to their being set free after the case went to the United States Supreme Court. In addition Tappan was among the founders of the American Missionary Association in 1846 which began more than 100 anti-slavery Congregational churches throughout the Midwest and after the American Civil War founded numerous schools and colleges to aid in the education of freedmen. Finally he organized the return trip home to Africa for surviving members of the group.

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