The Perry Public Library has announced the cancelation of the presidential-themed lecture Wednesday, Feb. 22 by amateur presidential historian Rex Voegtlin of Earlham.
Voegtlin was scheduled to deliver a talk called “Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln: Their Views Regarding Providence and Slavery” in the Community Room of the Perry Public Library at 6 p.m.
Voegtlin is a retired financial planner with a passion for Revolutionary War history and the history of the U.S. presidents. He has a master’s degree from Iowa State University and is married to the Grammy-nominated Christian vocalist Karen Voegtlin.
The lecture will discuss the ways Christians in the U.S. rationalized slavery and the groundwork laid by Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln to end American slavery.
