Religion and the antebellum debate over slavery / edited by John R. McKivigan & Mitchell Snay.
| Other author | McKivigan, John R., 1949- |
| Other author | Snay, Mitchell. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1998. |
| Description | viii, 391 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Religion and the problem of slavery in antebellum America / John R. McKivigan and Mitchell Snay -- Of stations and relations: proslavery Christianity in early national Virginia / Douglas Ambrose -- Slavery and evangelical enlightenment / Robert P. Forbes -- "To keep the way open for Methodism": Georgia Wesleyan neutrality toward slavery, 1844-1861 / Christopher H. Owen -- "Matters of justice between man and man": northern divines, the Bible, and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 / Laura L. Mitchell -- Evangelical womanhood and the politics of the African Colonization Movement in Virginia / Elizabeth R. Varon -- Suffering with slaveholders: the limits of Francis Wayland's antislavery witness / Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven -- Leonard Bacon, the Congregational Church, and slavery, 1845-1861 / Hugh Davis -- Evangelicals divided: abolition and the plan of Union's demise in Ohio's Western Reserve / Chris Padgett -- "To rend the body of Christ": proslavery ideology and religious schism from a Mississippi perspective / Randy Sparks -- Restructuring of southern religion: slavery, denominations and the clerical profession in Virginia / Beth Barton Schweiger -- "Religion has something ... to do with politics": Southern evangelicals and the North / Sectional division of the Methodist and Baptist denominations as measures of northern antislavery sentiment / John R. McKivigan. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 98021073 |
| ISBN | 0820319724 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0820320765 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | E449 .R35 1998 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |