::: As I understand it, the church's practice was to have members who owned slaves give the slave to the church as tithing, and then have the slave work off his freedom, thereby eliminating slavery by church members, yet, not denying them compensation, and allowed the slave to earn his own freedom.  I think it relates to Smith's idea of having the Government purchase the slaves, thus ending slavery.  It was a platform of his presidential bid.  Do we have information on both issued, and have them covered (if they are not already).