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Richard Furman, M.A., D.D.
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Richard Furman and His Legacy of Slavery
Richard Furman, 1755-1825. Richard Furman, a Baptist leader from Charleston, S.C., and the first president of the South Carolina State Baptist Convention, was an influential voice in justifying slavery on moral and biblical grounds for Baptists and others throughout South Carolina. Furman University is named in his honor, and he is the father of James Clement Furman, secessionist and Furman's first president.
Treasurer’s Receipt Book, 1851-1854.
– This notebook records the receipt of payments for labor and building supplies, with their recipients’ signatures, and was used during the construction of Old Main. Along with the loose paper slips in this case, these documents provide a window into the large network of laborers and suppliers used to construct the first major building on The Furman University’s campus. Suppliers of hired slave labor for the construction include E. A. Besseller, James N. Benson, L. B. Cline, P. C. Edwards, Dorcas Gleeson, T. W. Kiniman, J. Mauldin, Vardry McBee, O. A. Pickle, Margaret A. Rice, Hugh Thompson, and James Thornburg
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The Furman Institution in Winnsboro
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Rev. Dr. Richard Furman’s exposition of the views of the Baptists, relative to the coloured population of the United States, in a communication to the governor of South-Carolina.
Charleston: Printed by A. E. Miller, 1823
Written in the wake of the failed Denmark Vesey rebellion, Richard Furman’s Exposition was created as a public letter and statement to the South Carolina governor, John L. Wilson. One year later, a group of prominent citizens in Charleston organized a “Day of Thanksgiving and Humiliation” on the anniversary of the plot’s being found out to praise God for having saved them from a slave rebellion and took it upon themselves to see that copies of Furman’s statement were printed for distribution.
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