Frederick Augustus Ross

Frederick Augustus Ross (December 25, 1796 – April 13, 1883) was a Presbyterian New School clergyman in both Kingsport, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama, slave owner, publisher and pro-slavery author of the book Slavery As Ordained of God (1857).

[1] During 1818, Ross entered into the Presbyterian ministry, emancipated his slaves, and then moved to Kingsport, Tennessee, where he had his massive Rotherwood mansion constructed on the Netherland Inn Road.

Together with James Gallaher and David Nelson, Ross edited a monthly publication entitled The Calvinistic Magazine, that was first founded in 1826 and continued in operation through 1832.

In the late 1840s, Ross began quarreling with Methodist minister and Whig newspaper publisher William Gannaway Brownlow.

In 1847, he launched a separate paper, the Jonesborough Quarterly Review, which was dedicated to refuting Ross's attacks, and embarked on a speaking tour that summer.

Heading for "F.A. Ross' Corner," a series in the William Gannaway Brownlow's Jonesborough Whig that attacked Presbyterian minister Frederick Augustus Ross.
Browlow's Knoxville Whig weekly broadsheet. Brownlow had previously published variations of his Whig newspapers in both Elizabethton and Jonesborough .