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The Role of Swedenborg and the Writings in the Struggle for Freedom and Abolition


by Brian Henderson

Type of Event: Class

Date Recorded: January 21, 2008

Location: Boynton Beach, FL

Groups: Eldergarten / Boynton Beach Retreat

Full title: Breaking the Chains: The Role of Swedenborg and the Writings in the Struggle for Freedom and Abolition. A four-part presentation given at Eldergarten, "Celebrating the Age of Wisdom".
Subject: Within a century of the Lord's Second Coming, slavery ended in Europe and the Americas. This lecture series explores the role the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg played in the abolition movements in England and in the United States in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as exploring possible links with the end of serfdom in Russia and other freedom movements of the period.


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# Title Length
1 Part 1 58m 03s
2 Part 2 54m 37s
3 Part 3 48m 33s
4 Part 4 51m 13s
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