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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Lyman Beecher</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/10/faith-freedom-daily-lyman-beecher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lyman Beecher studied theology at Yale College and was ordained a Presbyterian minister. From 1810-1826, he preached in Litchfield, CT and helped found the American Bible Society. In 1825, he founded the American Temperance Society. Eventually Beecher became one of the best known and most popular ministers of his day. Various evangelists encouraged him to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Antoinette Brown</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antoinette Brown was born in New York and began to speak publicly in church at the age of nine. Educated at Oberlin College through the equivalent of Doctor of Divinity, she was initially refused ordination because of her gender. In 1853, the Congregational church made her the first woman to be ordained. She later became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Olaudah Equiano</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Olaudah Equiano was sometimes known as Gustavus Vassa.  Equiano was born free in what is now Essaka, an Igbo Village in northeastern Nigeria, West Africa.  He was kidnapped as a child and survived the arduous Middle Passage.  At first, Equiano was enslaved on plantations in the West Indies and Virginia.  Later, a captain in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Yarrow Marmood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yarrow (Mamount) Marmood had been captured on the Guinea Coast and enslaved in what is today the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. prior to the American Revolution.  As an elderly man, Marmood was given his freedom in 1807.  Marmood is listed as a property owner in the 1800, 1810 and 1820 U.S. Census.  He bought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Biddy Mason</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/10/faith-freedom-daily-biddy-mason/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biddy Mason was born enslaved on a plantation in Mississippi owned by Robert Marion Smith.  In 1847, Smith became a Mormon convert and decided to move to the Utah territory with his household and his slaves.  In 1851, Smith moved again to San Bernadino, California where Mormon elder Brigham Young was starting a new Mormon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Tenkskawatawa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tenkskawatawa was also known as the Prophet of the Open Door.  He was the younger brother of Tecumseh, the great leader and statesman of the Shawnee people.  Tenskawatawa was a shaman, or healer, to his people.  In about 1805, he experienced a divine revelation that he hoped would help repel white settlers from encroaching futher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Phillis Wheatley</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/10/faith-freedom-daily-phillis-wheatley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phillis Wheatley was born in the Senegal-Gambia region of West Africa in 1753.  She was kidnapped as a child, and after surviving the Middle Passage, was sold to John Wheatley in Boston, Massachusetts.  The young girl learned English with great speed and eventually learned Latin and Greek.  In 1767, Wheatley published her first poem in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Samuel Hopkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samuel Hopkins was a well educated Congregational minister who served various churches in New England over the course of his long life.  A graduate of Yale, Rev. Hopkins published many religious articles and sermons.  After 1770, he began to preach more urgently against slavery.  He worked actively to aid the passage of laws in Rhode [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: William Apes</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/10/faith-freedom-daily-william-apes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Apes was born in Massachusetts, probably to an African American mother and a father of mixed Indian and white descent.  His paternal grandmother was Pequot.  After a difficult childhood, Apess was ordained a Methodist Minister in 1829.  His book, A Song of the Forest (1829), was the first published autobiography of a native person.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Samson Occom</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/10/faith-freedom-daily-samson-occom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut-born Samson Occom became a Protestant minister.  In 1749, Occom (or Occum) chose to go to Long Island to serve the Montauk peoples as their pastor and schoolmaster.  Occom was officially ordained in 1759.  In 1766, Occom went to England to help raise funds to establish Dartmouth College.]]></description>
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