Author: Gilbert HAVENPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
National Sermons. Sermons, speeches and letters on slavery and the war, etc
Author: Gilbert HAVENThe War against Proslavery Religion
Author: John R. McKiviganPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501728741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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 techniques to assess the positions adopted by various churches in the North during the growing conflict over slavery, and to analyze the stratagems adopted by American abolitionists during the 1840s and 1850s to persuade northern churches to condemn slavery and to endorse emancipation. Working for three decades to gain church support for their crusade, the abolitionists were the first to use many of the tactics of later generations of radicals and reformers who were also attempting to enlist conservative institutions in the struggle for social change. To correct what he regards to be significant misperceptions concerning church-oriented abolitionism, McKivigan concentrates on the effects of the abolitionists' frequent failures, the division of their movement, and the changes in their attitudes and tactics in dealing with the churches. By examining the pre-Civil War schisms in the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist denominations, he shows why northern religious bodies refused to embrace abolitionism even after the defection of most southern members. He concludes that despite significant antislavery action by a few small denominations, most American churches resisted committing themselves to abolitionist principles and programs before the Civil War. In a period when attention is again being focused on the role of religious bodies in influencing efforts to solve America's social problems, this book is especially timely.
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
The Student's Common-place Book: a Cyclopedia of Illustration and Fact, Topically Arranged: English literature
Author: Henry J. FoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Catalogue of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Negro Collection of the Fisk University Library, Nashville, Tennessee
Author: Fisk University. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Catalogue of the Astor Library
Author: Catalogue of the Free Public Library of Lynn, Mass. Established 1862
Author: Free Public Library (Lynn, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Author: John Jay Bailey