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Gurley sermon for Abraham Lincoln

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Source Sets

The Building Knowledge and Breaking Barriers source sets feature primary sources from the Presbyterian Historical Society collection along with secondary sources relating to a topic from American history or American religious history. In addition to the sources, the sets contain contextual information on the topic, full citations, information about the author, and reading questions.  

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Whitefield preaching at Moor fields First Great Awakening
David Brainerd portrait on horseback Missions to Native Americans
Portrait of Benjamin Rush Rhetoric about Slavery in the Revolutionary Era (1757-1787)
1768 cartoon of American colonists pushing away Anglican ship from harbor Presbyterians and the American Revolution
Portrait of Henry Highland Garnet African American Clergy on Slavery
Detail of Ashmun Liberia Map The Colonization Movement (1830s)
Portrait of Albert Barnes The Temperance Movement (1830s-1850s)
Portrait of Lydia Maria Child Women and the Anti-slavery Movement (1830s)
James Forten Portrait Free Black Suffrage and the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention (1838)
Image from "A Full and Complete Account of the Late Awful Riots in Philadelphia" Philadelphia Bible Riots of 1844
Portrait of James W.C. Pennington African American Clergy and Churches: James W.C. Pennington (1820s-1850s)
image from report Presbyterian Mission to the Chinese in California (1850s)
Portrait of John Brown Presbyterian Attitudes Towards Abolitionists (1860)
Portrait of African American Union soldier Freedmen/Contraband during the Civil War (1863-1865)
Group surrounding Abraham Lincoln on his deathbed Sermons on the Death of Abraham Lincoln

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