'This Whole Country Have Their Hands Full of Blood This Day': Transcription and Introduction of an Antislavery Sermon Manuscript Attributed to the Reverend Samuel Hopkins.

In the latter half of 1776, the Reverend Samuel Hopkins of Newport, Rhode Island, preached a stirring antislavery sermon from Isaiah 1:15. A transcript of the twenty-eight-page manuscript is published here for the first time with an introductory essay that discusses how the sermon sheds important new light on the social and intellectual origins of Hopkins's abolitionism. The sermon reveals a combination of Hopkins's New Divinity Calvinism, his experiences living in Newport, his reading and correspondence from throughout the Atlantic world, and the libertarian rhetoric of the American Revolution, all of which he synthesized to produce this powerful antislavery jeremiad.