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1832 VIRGINIA PRO-SLAVERY. Legislator Whose Son Fires First Virginia Shot for Confederacy. Sermons Trumbull's sermon on preached uponVery scarce early pro slavery speech by Virginia Legislator, John Thompson Brown. Abolitionist sentiments had been dispersed in Virginia throughout the late 1820's and early 1830's. Brown brought it to the floor under the idea that it must be discussed sooner or later. Thus, it should be discussed by choice, and the matter put to bed, as it were. Yes, he is that dismissive of the idea of abolition. His arguments are fairly straightforward. It's