Mercy Otis Warren is the author of the notoriously incendiary "History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution." In it she wrote of her belief that all men were equal. When Warren was 16 years old, she had a conversation with a neighbor's father about slavery. He laughed at her and said that "colored people were not worth as much as white people." She then wrote a letter to her friend, Dr. Samuel L.M
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Elliot, a Unitarian minister in Boston, Massachusetts, who was a member of the Massachusetts Committee for Abolition of Slavery. She asked if she could study to be a minister and he allowed her to do so. Without money or way to get to school, Mercy walked from Georgia to Boston and became an apprentice at Dr.
Elliot's school where she studied for under one year. She was unable to complete her studies and gave up on becoming a minister.