By Max L. Knowles
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On February 5, 1860, a strange thing happened at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York. Church members were not having a “bake sale.” They were having a “slave sale.”  But this sale was backwards. Church members were buying the freedom of a real slave. On that day, the church raised $900, and they bought a slave girl named Pinky from her owner. A gold ring was also collected with the money. Eventually, Pinky was set free. And the church’s leader, Henry Ward Be...