The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Excommunication [from the Independent]

Stowe, Harriet Beecher [Mrs.]. "The Excommunication [from the Independent]." New-York Saturday Press, May 15, 1860, 4.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

The narrator watches the extraordinary scene of people gathering to look at the recently posted list of names that must relinquish church membership.