Background
Channing, William Ellery was born on April 7, 1780 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Son of William and Lucy (Ellery) Channing.
Channing, William Ellery was born on April 7, 1780 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Son of William and Lucy (Ellery) Channing.
Graduate Cambridge (England) University 1798.
Ordained to ministry, 1803. Pastor Federal Street Church, Boston, 1805-1842. Did not approve of denominational ties but became leader in Unitarin movement by his arguments against Calvinist doctrine.
Organized Berry Street conference of liberal ministers, 1820, it in turn organized American Unitarian association, 1825.
Interested in politics (Jeffersonian) and literature believed that literature (particularly American literature) could lead to intellectual and moral reformation of manitoba Influenced writers such as Emerson and Thoreau.
Supported abolition, temperance and Peace. Society Author: Remarks on American Literature, 1830.
Slavery, 1835; The Abolitionist, 1836.
Duty of the Free States, 1842.
Married Ruth Gibbs, 1814.