 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).Frederick Augustus Ross was born in Cumberland County, Virginia, as the son of David Ross, a wealthy businessman in Richmond, Virginia, who himself had emigrated from Scotland in the mid-eighteenth century.