They have souls, and are subjects of salvation. Go into Cincinnati or any city, and find an educated negro, who rides in his carriage, and you will see a man who has risen by the powers of his own mind to his exalted state of respectability.
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"God will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God."
"I am a man of temperance, and I will be temperate in all things."
"For behold, the Lord shall curse the land with much heat, and the barrenness thereof shall go forth forever; and there was a blackness came upon all the children of Canaan, that they were despised amo…"
"I am a servant of God, and I will serve him to the end."
"And it shall come to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise up against their masters, who shall be marshaled and disciplined for war."
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Black people possess souls and are worthy of salvation—equal in spiritual standing to anyone. Smith points to prosperous, educated Black professionals in Northern cities as living proof that intelligence and determination can elevate a person regardless of race, directly challenging the dehumanizing logic used to justify slavery in his time.
In 1844, Smith ran for U.S. President advocating gradual emancipation—radical for a frontier religious leader. As a prophet claiming divine revelation on human worth, his assertion that Black people have souls and can achieve greatness aligned with his expansive theology of human potential, though his church simultaneously maintained a priesthood restriction for Black members.
Spoken in the 1840s during peak antebellum tension, when pro-slavery ideology depended on denying Black humanity and intellect. Free Black communities in Cincinnati and other Northern cities visibly contradicted those claims. Abolitionists frequently cited such examples; Smith invoking them placed him—however inconsistently—among voices challenging the foundational premise of American racial slavery.
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