Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

Between 1849 and the outbreak of the Civil War, this plain brick church was one of the nation's foremost centers of antislavery sentiment. Its minister at the time was Henry Ward Beecher, who had gained wide notice through his ...

National Historic Landmark- Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

National Historical Landmark- Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

Between 1849 and the outbreak of the Civil War, Henry Ward Beecher, noted abolitionist and minister of Plymouth Church, made the church a center of antislavery sentiment.

William Lloyd Garrison and John Greenleaf Whittier ...

Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

Underground Railroad Heritage Trail

The congregation of Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims hired Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) as their first minister, approving of his abolitionist sentiments. Beecher protested the Fugitive Slave Laws of 1850, exhorting his congregation to place the requirements ...