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" I will say nothing about the inconvenience which I have experienced myself, and which every man of color experiences, though made in the image of God.

I will say nothing about the inconvenience of traveling ; how we are frowned upon and despised.

No matter how we may demean ourselves, we find embarrassments everywhere.

But, this prejudice goes farther.

It debars men from heaven.

While sir, slavery cuts off the colored portion of the community from religious privileges men are made infidels.

What, they demand, is your Christianity?

How do you regard your brethren?

How do you treat them at the Lord's table?

Where is your consistency in talking about the heathen, traversing the ocean to circulate the Bible everywhere, while you frown upon them at the door?

These things meet us and weigh down our spirits ...." Many founding members used a practical approach to slavery, saying economically it did not make sense.

Wright used the rhetoric of religion to elicit empathy toward African Americans, and presented slavery as a moral sin directed at those who were persecuted.