TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mathews,Donald G.
TI  - Slavery and Methodism: A Chapter in American Morality, 1780-1845 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9780691624259
AV  - E449 
U1  - 261.8 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Slavery and the church
KW  - Methodist Episcopal Church
KW  - United States
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; PREFACE --; CONTENTS --; PART I. THE CHURCH AND SLAVERY --; I. COMPROMISE AND CONSCIENCE: The Church and Slavery 1780-1816 --; II. COMPROMISE CONFIRMED: The Sectional Adjustment to Slavery 1808-1830 --; III. THE SOUTHERN COMPROMISE OF CONSCIENCE: The Mission to the Slaves 1824-1844 --; IV. THE GENTEEL COMPROMISE OF CONSCIENCE: Methodists and Colonization 1824-1844 --; PART II. THE CHURCH AND ABOLITION --; V. THE RADICAL ALTERNATIVE TO COMPROMISE: The Rise of Methodist Abolitionism 1832-1836 --; VI. CLASH OF ALTERNATIVES: The Abolitionists and the North 1836-1839 --; VII. CLASH OF ALTERNATIVES: North and South 1836-1840 --; VIII. REALIGNMENT OF ALTERNATIVES: The Conservatives Discover Antislavery without Abolitionism 1840-1844 --; IX. CHOICE AND DISJUNCTION: The General Conference of 1844 --; EPILOGUE: Of Slavery and Morality --; APPENDIX --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The growing appeal of abolitionism and its increasing success in converting Americans to the antislavery cause, a generation before the Civil War, is clearly revealed in this book on the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. The moral character of the antislavery movement is stressed.Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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