Excerpt from Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes, A. M., For Many Years Pastor of a Church in Rutland, Vt., And Late in Granville, New-

The letters of Paul—especially the verse in Ephesians directing slaves to obey their masters—played an enormous role in promoting slavery and justifying it

In My Power tells the story of letter writing and communications in the creation of the British Empire and the formation of the United States. In an era of bewi