Slavery and Methodism : : A Chapter in American Morality, 1780-1845 /

Slavery and Methodism : : A Chapter in American Morality, 1780-1845 / / Donald G. Mathews.

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The growing appeal of abolitionism and its increasing success in converting Americans to the antislavery cause, a generation before the Civil War, is clearly revealed in this book on the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. The moral character of the antislavery movement is stressed.Originally pub...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Mathews, Donald G.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1965
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 2352
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • PART I. THE CHURCH AND SLAVERY
  • I. COMPROMISE AND CONSCIENCE: The Church and Slavery 1780-1816
  • II. COMPROMISE CONFIRMED: The Sectional Adjustment to Slavery 1808-1830
  • III. THE SOUTHERN COMPROMISE OF CONSCIENCE: The Mission to the Slaves 1824-1844
  • IV. THE GENTEEL COMPROMISE OF CONSCIENCE: Methodists and Colonization 1824-1844
  • PART II. THE CHURCH AND ABOLITION
  • V. THE RADICAL ALTERNATIVE TO COMPROMISE: The Rise of Methodist Abolitionism 1832-1836
  • VI. CLASH OF ALTERNATIVES: The Abolitionists and the North 1836-1839
  • VII. CLASH OF ALTERNATIVES: North and South 1836-1840
  • VIII. REALIGNMENT OF ALTERNATIVES: The Conservatives Discover Antislavery without Abolitionism 1840-1844
  • IX. CHOICE AND DISJUNCTION: The General Conference of 1844
  • EPILOGUE: Of Slavery and Morality
  • APPENDIX
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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