A sermon preached at First Parish of Concord, Massachusetts. A revised version of this sermon was published as “A Cold Shoulder for William Jackson,” in Black Trailblazers and Missed Opportunities in Unitarian Unviersalism, ed. Mark Morrison-Reed (Boston: Skinner House, 2011). An earlier version of this sermon was given at First Unitarian in New Bedford on 31 May 2009.
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What Happened in 1860
This sermon told the story of Rev. William Jackson, the first African American ordained minister to publicly declare himself a Unitarian. A version of this sermon will be published in a forthcoming book from Skinner House, edited by Mark Morrison-Reed.