{"id":777,"date":"2025-01-18T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/?p=777"},"modified":"2025-01-18T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T18:48:54","slug":"channings-works-volume-2-1843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/channings-works-volume-2-1843\/","title":{"rendered":"Channing\u2019s Works &#8211; Volume 2 (1843)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-768\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-100-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-768 ml-slider ms-theme-default-base has-dots-nav\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Channing&#039;s Works\" data-height=\"700\" data-width=\"700\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_768\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_768\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-773 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2025-01-18 13:27:54\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_7400-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"slider-768 slide-773 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"IMG_7400\" style=\"margin-top: 10%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_7400-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_7400-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_7400-1024x819.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_7400-768x615.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_7400-1536x1229.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_7400-2048x1639.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; 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Volume 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Author: William E. Channing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Publisher: James Munroe and Company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Estimated year of printing: 1843<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notes:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Ellery Channing (1780 &#8211; 1842) was an influential Unitarian preacher at the Federal Street Church in Boston, during a formative period of the Unitarian Church in America.\u00a0 His grandfather and namesake, William Ellery,\u00a0 was a signer of the Declaration of Independence for Rhode Island.\u00a0 Channing published many books and writings in his life, this book is the second volume of a collection of his publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest work in this volume is <em>Slavery<\/em>, a book first published in 1835 which argued against the institution of slavery from a biblical perspective.&nbsp; This was well before the Civil War in America, and opposition to slavery was still a controversial stance, even in the Northeast, so Channing was slow to publicly share these views, which he had formed during his youth in Virginia.&nbsp; Channing\u2019s book affirmed the human rights of slaves and argued that slavery was a sin against God which was detrimental to both slaves and also slave owners.&nbsp; Despite his progressive (for the time) support for their freedom, Channing unfortunately still believed in the general inferiority of African people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides slavery and abolitionism, this volume also includes writings on the annexation of Texas (which he opposed) and Catholicism (which he thought was too dogmatic and tied to the past).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Historical context:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When this book was printed in 1843, John Tyler was President of the United States, having succeeded William Henry Harrison who died after only a month in office.&nbsp; A year earlier in 1842, the Dorr Rebellion was a civil war in Rhode Island where residents fought for broader democracy and established a parallel governement, which eventually resulted in a rewriting of the state constitution.&nbsp; A few years later in 1845, Texas was annexed by the United States and became the 28th state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/re\/tapestry\/adults\/resistance\/workshop3\/182230.shtml\" title=\"\">Channing and the Response to Slavery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Ellery_Channing\" title=\"\">William Ellery Channing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes:&nbsp; William Ellery Channing (1780 &#8211; 1842) was an influential Unitarian preacher at the Federal Street Church in Boston, during a formative period of the Unitarian Church in America.\u00a0 His grandfather and namesake, William Ellery,\u00a0 was a signer of the Declaration of Independence for Rhode Island.\u00a0 Channing published many books and writings in his life, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,61],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commentary","tag-earlyamerican"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}