Image: South Carolina State Museum
On one of the first pages in the Bible, William Turpin kept a handwritten list of names and details of dozens of enslaved people he freed between 1807 and 1826.
ABible containing a rare record of Christian opposition to slavery is going on display for the first time in the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia. The Bible once belonged to William Turpin, who with his business partner Thomas Wadsworth bought human beings in the late 1700s. The men then became convinced slavery was immoral and freed them. Turpin recorded the names of 31 people freed from their enslavement in his Bible.
