Free Presbyterian Church Synod of the United States
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Free Presbyterian Church Synod of the United States
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Free Presbyterian Church Synod of the United States was an anti-slavery denomination formed of churches that had withdrawn from Old School and New School Presbyterian Churches and that first organized as the Free Synod of Cincinnati in 1847. The instigator was the Rev. John Rankin, a fervent abolitionist and pastor of a New School Presbyterian Church in Ripley, Ohio, who had unsuccessfully petitioned the General Assembly of his denomination to exclude slaveholders from membership. The Free Presb
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