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Henry W. Ward
A powerful 19th-century preacher and bestselling writer, he became one of the most famous public voices of his era. His sermons, lectures, and essays blended religion, reform, and sharp social commentary.
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Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales
by Florence M. Cronise, Henry W. Ward
About the author
Born in 1813, he was an American Congregationalist minister, speaker, and author whose influence reached far beyond the pulpit. He led Plymouth Church in Brooklyn for decades and became widely known for his forceful antislavery views, his skill as an orator, and his ability to connect religious ideas to the social issues of his time.
He wrote extensively, producing sermons, essays, lectures, and religious works that found a large audience in the United States. Readers were drawn to his lively, accessible style and to his emphasis on a more compassionate, hopeful vision of Christianity.
His public life was also marked by controversy, and his reputation was hotly debated in his own day. Even so, he remained one of the best-known Protestant figures of the 19th century, remembered for the scale of his fame, his reform-minded voice, and the lasting reach of his writing.