The War against Proslavery Religion : : Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830-1865 /

The War against Proslavery Religion : : Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830-1865 / / John R. McKivigan.

Reflecting a prodigious amount of research in primary and secondary sources, this book examines the efforts of American abolitionists to bring northern religious institutions to the forefront of the antislavery movement.John R. McKivigan employs both conventional and quantitative historical techniqu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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McKivigan, John R.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2009
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 8 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. No Christian Fellowship with Slaveholders
  • 2. Donning the Prophet's Mantle
  • 3. Garrisonianism, the Churches, and the Division of the Abolitionist Movement
  • 4. Church-Oriented Abolitionism and the Sectional Schism in the American Churches
  • 5. Abolitionists and the Comeouter Sects
  • 6. Abolitionism and the Benevolent Empire
  • 7. Interdenominational Antislavery Endeavors
  • 8. Vote as You Pray and Pray as You Vote: Church-Oriented Abolitionism and Antislavery Politics
  • 9. Abolitionism and the Advance of Religious Antislavery Practices, 1845-1860
  • 10. Abolitionism and the Churches during the Civil War
  • Appendix: Religious Affiliations of the Officers of the Four National Abolition Societies, 1833-1864
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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