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He Sold a Slave, Raised a Nation's Clergy, Then Outlived Everything

He Sold a Slave, Raised a Nation's Clergy, Then Outlived Everything

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An Episcopal bishop knocks on British doors with one letter to raise funds for frontier clergy - what did it cost him?

He Sold a Slave, Raised a Nation's Clergy, Then Outlived Everything

In this episode, we follow Philander Chase from a New Hampshire farmhouse to frontier pulpits and back across the Atlantic, tracking how he built churches and seminaries and the personal losses that shadowed each triumph. What choices did he make on the road to founding clergy for the American frontier?

Person: Philander Chase
Date: December 14, 1775 (birth)
Location: Cornish, New Hampshire; Liverpool; Ohio; New Orleans; Hartford
Event: 1823 fundraising trip to England with one letter of introduction

- Born the youngest of fourteen, Chase left his Congregational family after discovering the Book of Common Prayer at Dartmouth.
- Ordained deacon May 10, 1798, Chase served a frontier circuit across New York State from 1798-1804.
- In 1805 he moved to New Orleans, founded a church, ran a school, bought a nineteen-year-old enslaved man named Jack for $500, and three months later Jack escaped to Liverpool.
- After relocating to Hartford (calling it his "Sunshine Years"), Chase later moved west, preaching in Ohio in 1817 and chairing the first Ohio Episcopal convention in 1818.
- In October 1823, with no institutional mandate and only a senator’s letter of introduction, Chase sailed to England and raised $30,000 from British donors for a college in Ohio.

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