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Augustin Vérot (1804 – 1876), the first Catholic Bishop of St. Augustine in Florida, publicly defended slavery and the Confederacy in widely-distributed pamphlets during the Civil War, earning him the title the "Rebel Bishop" as a result. How did Vérot's sermons on slavery influence Southerners?

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