This anthology of original essays by historians explores the religious dimensions of the antebellum sectional conflict over slavery. Covering such familiar topics as the proslavery argument and denominational schisms, these essays emphasize the diversity that existed within regions, states, and denominations; the importance of local factors in shaping responses to the slavery controversy; and the powerful pulls toward moderation and unity that existed within the institutional church. Drawing on the recent flowering of scholarship on religion, the essays collected here provide a variety of new approaches, including quantitative methodologies and a heightened sensitivity to issues of race, class, and gender.
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"The most complete discussion of the various ways religion undergirded most of the important issues of the day. The quality is high, and the collection makes an important contribution to antebellum social, cultural, religious, and political history."--John B. Boles, author of Religion in Antebellum Kentucky
"The real merit of this book is to explore slavery and sectionalism within the context of antebellum Protestantism as a means to expose new connections and to highlight established scholarship in a fresh manner."--Walter H. Conser Jr., coeditor of Religious Diversity and American Religious History
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John R. McKivigan is a professor of history at West Virginia University. He is the author of The War Against Proslavery Religion. Mitchell Snay is an associate professor of history at Denison University and the author of Gospel of Disunion.
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In January 1798, Francis Asbury, the first bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America, acknowledged in his journal a fear he had probably long recognized but had been reluctant to admit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relationship with slavery, fugitive rendition, antislavery moderates, moderate antislavery position, good slaveholders, modernist ministers, evangelical womanhood, proslavery religion, antislavery controversy, immediate abolitionists, denominational schisms, liturgical denominations, evangelical traditionalists, immediate abolitionism, sectional schism, southern evangelicals, southern denominations, religious benevolence, southern clergymen, triennial convention, benevolent empire, local presbyteries, northern churches, home missionary society, northern conservatives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Western Reserve, United States, Plan of Union, Old South, South Carolina, New England, New Haven, Oxford University Press, African Repository, Chapel Hill, Christian Advocate, Georgia Methodists, Georgia Wesleyans, Thomas Jefferson, Journal of Southern History, Baton Rouge, Francis Wayland, Louisiana State University Press, Yale University Press, American Colonization Society, University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, Religious Herald, University of Georgia Press New!
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In January 1798, Francis Asbury, the first bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America, acknowledged in his journal a fear he had probably long recognized but had been reluctant to admit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relationship with slavery, fugitive rendition, antislavery moderates, moderate antislavery position, good slaveholders, modernist ministers, evangelical womanhood, proslavery religion, antislavery controversy, immediate abolitionists, denominational schisms, liturgical denominations, evangelical traditionalists, immediate abolitionism, sectional schism, southern evangelicals, southern denominations, religious benevolence, southern clergymen, triennial convention, benevolent empire, local presbyteries, northern churches, home missionary society, northern conservatives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Western Reserve, United States, Plan of Union, Old South, South Carolina, New England, New Haven, Oxford University Press, African Repository, Chapel Hill, Christian Advocate, Georgia Methodists, Georgia Wesleyans, Thomas Jefferson, Journal of Southern History, Baton Rouge, Francis Wayland, Louisiana State University Press, Yale University Press, American Colonization Society, University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, Religious Herald, University of Georgia Press New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Puritan As Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell (Library of Religious Biography) by Mr. Robert Bruce Mullin in Back Matter
- The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity by Mark A. Noll in Back Matter
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