Author: Richard MunkhousePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A Sermon, Preached in the Church of St. John Baptist, Wakefield, on Thursday, November 29th, 1798
Author: Richard MunkhouseThe Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine Or Monthly Political and Literary Censor
Author: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Protestant Advocate
Author: The Battle Against Slavery
Author: Paul L. DawsonPublisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1399018493
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
On 13 December 1776, the Rev. William Turner preached the first avowedly anti-slavery sermon in the North of England. Copies of his sermon were distributed far and wide – in so doing, he had fired the first shot in the battle to end slavery had begun. Four years later, Rev. Turner, members of his congregation and the Rev. Christopher Wyvill founded ‘The Yorkshire Association’ to agitate for political and social reform. The Association sought universal suffrage, annual parliaments and the abolition of slavery. In the West Riding, despite furious opposition, by 1783 nearly 10,000 signatures were collected in support of the aims of the Association. Slavery, or rather its abolition, was now on the political agenda. The Battle Against Slavery charts the story of a group of West Riding radicals in their bid to abolish slavery both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Such became the influence of this group, whose Unitarian beliefs were illegal in Britain, that the general election of 1806 in Yorkshire was fought on an abolitionist platform. At a time when the rest of the world engaged in slavery, this small body was fighting almost single-handedly to end such practices. Gradually, their beliefs began to spread across the country and across the Channel to France, the principles of which found resonance during the French Revolution and even across the Atlantic to America. At a time, today, when the history of slavery is the subject of considerable debate worldwide, this revealing insight into the abolitionist movement, which demonstrates how ordinary men and women battled against governments and the establishment, needs to be told. The Battle Against Slavery adds an important dimension to the continuing debate over Britain’s, and other nations’, involvement in the slave trade and demonstrates how the determination of just a few right-minded people can change world opinion forever.
A War of Ideas
Author: Emma Vincent MacleodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429841906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The responses of British people to the French Revolution has recently received considerable attention from historians. British commentators often expressed a sense of the novelty and scale of European wars which followed, yet their views on this conflict have not yet attracted such thorough examination. This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the attitudes of various groups of British people to the conflict during the 1790’s: the Government, their supporters and their opponents inside and outside Parliament, women, churchmen, and the broad mass of British public opinion. It presents the debate in England and Scotland provoked by the war both as the sequel to the French Revolution and as a distinct debate in itself. Emma Vincent Macleod argues that contemporaries saw this conflict as one of the first since the wars of religion to be significantly shaped by ideological hostility rather than solely by a struggle over strategic interests.
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Pastor Henry N. Jeter's Twenty-five Years Experience with the Shiloh Baptist Church
Author: Henry Norval JeterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia
Author: Robert Baylor SemplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
One Hundred Years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Author: James Walker HoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
History of the Churches of Boone's Creek Baptist Association of Kentucky
Author: S. J. ConkwrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptist church history
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description