Author: Bethel Baptist Church (Saint Clair County, Ill.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Bethel Baptist Church Minutes, 1806-1851
Author: Bethel Baptist Church (Saint Clair County, Ill.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Bethel Church Book. Minutes of the Proceedings of the Bethel Church, 1806-1867
Author: Bethel Baptist church, Cape Girardeau Co., MoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Before Dred Scott
Author: Anne TwittyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107112060
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
An analysis of slave and slaveholder understanding and manipulation of formal legal systems in the region known as the American Confluence during the antebellum era.
America's Religious Crossroads
Author: Stephen T. KisselPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252053192
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Between 1790 and 1850, waves of Anglo-Americans, African Americans, and European immigrants flooded the Old Northwest (modern-day Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin). They brought with them a mosaic of Christian religious belief. Stephen T. Kissel draws on a wealth of primary sources to examine the foundational role that organized religion played in shaping the social, cultural, and civic infrastructure of the region. As he shows, believers from both traditional denominations and religious utopian societies found fertile ground for religious unity and fervor. Able to influence settlement from the earliest days, organized religion integrated faith into local townscapes and civic identity while facilitating many of the Old Northwest's earliest advances in literacy, charitable public outreach, formal education, and social reform. Kissel also unearths fascinating stories of how faith influenced the bonds, networks, and relationships that allowed isolated western settlements to grow and evolve a distinct regional identity. Perceptive and broad in scope, America’s Religious Crossroads illuminates the integral relationship between communal and spiritual growth in early Midwestern history.
St. Clair County Genealogical Society Quarterly
Author: Democratic Religion
Author: Gregory A. WillsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195160991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. Between 1785 and 1860 they ritually excommunicated forty to fifty thousand church members in Georgia alone. Wills demonstrates how a denomination of freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality--a spirituality that continues to shape Southern Baptist churches in contemporary conflicts between moderates who urge tolerance and conservatives who require belief in scriptural inerrancy. Wills's analysis advances our understanding of the interaction between democracy and religious authority, and will appeal to scholars of American religion, culture, and history, as well as to Baptist observers.
Slave Against Slave
Author: Jeff ForretPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807161128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular presence among enslaved populations. Slave against Slave explores the roots of and motivations for such violence and the ways in which slaves, masters, churches, and civil and criminal laws worked to hold it in check. Far from focusing on violence alone, Forret’s work also adds depth to our understanding of morality among the enslaved, revealing how slaves sought to prevent violence and punish those who engaged in it. Forret mines a vast array of slave narratives, slaveholders’ journals, travelers’ accounts, and church and court records from across the South to approximate the prevalence of slave-against-slave violence prior to the Civil War. A diverse range of motives for these conflicts emerges, from tensions over status differences, to disagreements originating at work and in private, to discord relating to the slave economy and the web of debts that slaves owed one another, to courtship rivalries, marital disputes, and adulterous affairs. Forret also uncovers the role of explicitly gendered violence in bondpeople’s constructions of masculinity and femininity, suggesting a system of honor among slaves that would have been familiar to southern white men and women, had they cared to acknowledge it. Though many generations of scholars have examined violence in the South as perpetrated by and against whites, the internal clashes within the slave quarters have remained largely unexplored. Forret’s analysis of intraracial slave conflicts in the Old South examines narratives of violence in slave communities, opening a new line of inquiry into the study of American slavery.
APG Directory of Professional Genealogists
Author: Minutes of the General Conference of the Congregational Churches in Maine and Maine Missionary Society
Author: Congregational Churches in Maine. General ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Minutes of the ... Annual Meeting
Author: General Conference of the Congregational Churches in MainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description