Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over SlaveryJohn R. McKivigan, Mitchell Snay University of Georgia Press, 1998 - 391 pages 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. |
Contents
Religion and the Problem of Slavery in Antebellum | 1 |
Proslavery Christianity in Early National | 35 |
Slavery and the Evangelical Enlightenment Robert P Forbes | 68 |
Georgia Wesleyan | 109 |
Northern Divines | 134 |
Evangelical Womanhood and the Politics of the African Colonization | 169 |
The Limits of Francis Waylands | 196 |
Leonard Bacon the Congregational Church and Slavery 18451861 | 221 |
Abolition and the Plan of Unions Demise | 249 |
Proslavery Ideology and Religious | 273 |
Slavery Denominations | 296 |
Southern | 317 |
The Sectional Division of the Methodist and Baptist Denominations | 343 |
Contributors | 365 |
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