The War Against Proslavery Religion

by McKivigan, John R.

• ISBN13: 9780801475764
• ISBN10: 0801475767
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Author Biography

John R. McKivigan is Marry O'Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author of Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America, also from Cornell, and the coeditor of several books.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Introduction	p. 13
No Christian Fellowship with Slaveholders	p. 18
Donning the Prophet's Mantle	p. 36
Garrisonianism, the Churches, and the Division of the abolitionist Movement	p. 56
Church-Oriented Abolitionism and the Sectional Schism in the American Churches	p. 74
Abolitionists and the Comeouter Sects	p. 93
Abolitionists and the Benevolent Empire	p. 111
Interdenominational Antislavery Endevors	p. 128
Vote as You Pray and Pray as You Vote: Church-Oriented Abolitionism and antislavery Politics	p. 143
Abolitionism and the Churches during the Civil War	p. 183
Appendix: Religious Affiliations of the Officers of the Four National Abolition Societies, 1833-1864	p. 204
Abbreviations	p. 221
Notes	p. 222
Bibliography	p. 288
Index	p. 319
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