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 InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press, ©1998.
Descriptionviii, 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98021073
ISBN0820319724 (alk. paper)
ISBN0820320765 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E449 .R35 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold