Religion In Antebellum Kentucky

Author : John B. Boles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813183107

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Religion in Antebellum Kentucky by John B. Boles Pdf

A look at the Christian religions in the Bluegrass State before the Civil War from the author of the acclaimed Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty. Religion permeated the day-to-day life of antebellum Kentucky. This engaging account of Kentucky’s various Christian denominations, first published as part of the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf, traces the history of the Great Revival of 1800–1805, the subsequent schism in Protestant ranks, the rise of Catholicism, the development of a distinctive black Christianity, and the growth of a Christian antislavery tradition. Paying special attention to the role of religion in the everyday life of early Kentuckians and their heritage, John B. Boles provides a concise yet enlightening introduction to the faith and the people of the Bluegrass State. Religion in Antebellum Kentucky is an excellent survey of religion and its significance in the first eighty-five years of Kentucky’s history. “A small historical gem . . . Boles has set an admirable standard of excellence for this sort of study.” —William and Mary Quarterly

Author : John R. McKivigan,Mitchell Snay
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0820320765

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Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery by John R. McKivigan,Mitchell Snay Pdf

Essays discuss proslavery arguments in the churches, the urge toward compromise and unity, the coming of schisms in the various denominations, and the role of local conditions in determining policies

Author : James A. Ramage,Andrea S. Watkins
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813134413

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Kentucky Rising by James A. Ramage,Andrea S. Watkins Pdf

Kentucky's first settlers brought with them a dedication to democracy and a sense of limitless hope about the future. Determined to participate in world progress in science, education, and manufacturing, Kentuckians wanted to make the United States a great nation. They strongly supported the War of 1812, and Kentucky emerged as a model of patriotism and military spirit. Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War offers a new synthesis of the sixty years before the Civil War. James A. Ramage and Andrea S. Watkins explore this crucial but often overlooked period, finding that the early years of statehood were an era of great optimism and progress. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Ramage and Watkins demonstrate that the eyes of the nation often focused on Kentucky, which was perceived as a leader among the states before the Civil War. Globally oriented Kentuckians were determined to transform the frontier into a network of communities exporting to the world market and dedicated to the new republic. Kentucky Rising offers a valuable new perspective on the eras of slavery and the Civil War. This book is a copublication with the Kentucky Historical Society.

Author : Lowell Hayes Harrison
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0813127513

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The Antislavery Movement in Kentucky by Lowell Hayes Harrison Pdf

Author : Yolanda Pierce
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813072173

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Hell Without Fires by Yolanda Pierce Pdf

Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Using autobiographical narratives, the book shows how black writers transformed the earthly hell of slavery into a "New Jerusalem," a place they could call home. Yolanda Pierce insists that for African Americans, accounts of spiritual conversion revealed "personal transformations with far-reaching community effects. A personal experience of an individual's relationship with God is transformed into the possibility of liberating an entire community." The process of conversion could result in miraculous literacy, "callings" to preach, a renewed resistance to the slave condition, defiance of racist and sexist conventions, and communal uplift. These stories by five of the earliest antebellum spiritual writers--George White, John Jea, David Smith, Solomon Bayley, and Zilpha Elaw--create a new religious language that merges Christian scripture with distinct retellings of biblical stories, with enslaved people of African descent at their center. Showing the ways their language exploits the levels of meaning of words like master, slavery, sin, and flesh, Pierce argues that the narratives address the needs of those who attempted to transform a foreign god and religion into a personal and collective system of beliefs. The earthly "hell without fires"--one of the writer's characterizations of everyday life for those living in slavery--could become a place where an individual could be both black and Christian, and religion could offer bodily and psychological healing. Pierce presents a complex and subtle assessment of the language of conversion in the context of slavery. Her work will be important to those interested in the topics of slave religion and spiritual autobiography and to scholars of African American and early American literature and religion.

Author : Jascha Walter
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640330386

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Slavery and Religion in Antebellum America by Jascha Walter Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1-, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Institut für fremdsprachliche Philologien), 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: My original plan, to compare the northern and southern states of antebellum America with regard to the influence of religion on the attitude to slavery, proved to be problematic, because of the difficulties connected with getting information about the local residences of the different denominations. I found a lot of information about several aspects dealing with connections between religion and slavery, and thus I concentrated on the other aspect of the title, which were southern proslavery argumentations. As far as the idea of comparison is concerned, I collected information about the different denominations of antebellum America and their contribution to abolition or their indifference and inability to take a stand against slavery. To find relevant secondary literature I searched the university library Magdeburg, the university library Hamburg and the digital library of the "Making of America" website. I also found secondary literature in the internet through a search via the search engine www.google.de. First I want to present the different churches and denominations of antebellum America and their attitude to slavery. In most cases a development in the attitude can be observed. The second part of this essay concentrates on religiously oriented proslavery argumentations and is separated in different approaches and biblical aspects. The final topic deals with the conversion of slaves, which I found interesting, too, but I decided to mention this aspect only to some extent, because the centre of attention was supposed to be the attitude to slavery in connection to religion. Since I found more information than I initially had expected, I found myself compelled to make more footnotes, than I wo

Author : Luke E. Harlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : 1139917773

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Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 by Luke E. Harlow Pdf

Author : John Patrick Daly
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813158518

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When Slavery Was Called Freedom by John Patrick Daly Pdf

When Slavery Was Called Freedom uncovers the cultural and ideological bonds linking the combatants in the Civil War era and boldly reinterprets the intellectual foundations of secession. John Patrick Daly dissects the evangelical defense of slavery at the heart of the nineteenth century's sectional crisis. He brings a new understanding to the role of religion in the Old South and the ways in which religion was used in the Confederacy. Southern evangelicals argued that their unique region was destined for greatness, and their rhetoric gave expression and a degree of coherence to the grassroots assumptions of the South. The North and South shared assumptions about freedom, prosperity, and morality. For a hundred years after the Civil War, politicians and historians emphasized the South's alleged departures from national ideals. Recent studies have concluded, however, that the South was firmly rooted in mainstream moral, intellectual, and socio-economic developments and sought to compete with the North in a contemporary spirit. Daly argues that antislavery and proslavery emerged from the same evangelical roots; both Northerners and Southerners interpreted the Bible and Christian moral dictates in light of individualism and free market economics. When the abolitionist's moral critique of slavery arose after 1830, Southern evangelicals answered the charges with the strident self-assurance of recent converts. They went on to articulate how slavery fit into the "genius of the American system" and how slavery was only right as part of that system.

Author : Lowell H. Harrison
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2025-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813189802

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The Antislavery Movement in Kentucky by Lowell H. Harrison Pdf

As one of only two states in the nation to still allow slavery by the time of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Kentucky's history of slavery runs deep. Based on extensive research, The Antislavery Movement in Kentucky focuses on two main antislavery movements that emerged in Kentucky during the early years of opposition. By 1820, Kentuckians such as Cassius Clay called for the emancipation of slaves—a gradual end to slavery with compensation to owners. Others, such as Delia Webster, who smuggled three fugitive slaves across the Kentucky border to freedom in Ohio, advocated for abolition—an immediate and uncompensated end to the institution. Neither movement was successful, yet the tenacious spirit of those who fought for what they believed contributes a proud chapter to Kentucky history.

Author : John B. Boles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813101875

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Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord by John B. Boles Pdf

Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this significant book. The eight essays included here show that throughout the antebellum period, southern whites and blacks worshipped together, heard the same sermons, took communion and were baptized together, were subject to the same church discipline, and were buried in the same cemeteries. What was the black perception of white-controlled religious ceremonies? How did whites reconcile their faith with their racism? Why did freedmen, as soon as possible after the Civil War, withdraw from the biracial churches and establish black denominations? This book is essential reading for historians of religion, the South, and the Afro-American experience.

Author : Luke E. Harlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : 1139902164

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Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 by Luke E. Harlow Pdf

This book places religious debates about slavery at the centre of American political culture before, during, and after the Civil War.

Author : Jennifer Graber
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807877832

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The Furnace of Affliction by Jennifer Graber Pdf

Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s. Initially, state and prison officials welcomed Protestant reformers' and ministers' recommendations, particularly their ideas about inmate suffering and redemption. Over time, however, officials proved less receptive to the reformers' activities, and inmates also opposed them. Ensuing debates between reformers, officials, and inmates revealed deep disagreements over religion's place in prisons and in the wider public sphere as the separation of church and state took hold and the nation's religious environment became more diverse and competitive. Examining the innovative New York prison system, Graber shows how Protestant reformers failed to realize their dreams of large-scale inmate conversion or of prisons that reflected their values. To keep a foothold in prisons, reformers were forced to relinquish their Protestant terminology and practices and instead to adopt secular ideas about American morals, virtues, and citizenship. Graber argues that, by revising their original understanding of prisoner suffering and redemption, reformers learned to see inmates' afflictions not as a necessary prelude to a sinner's experience of grace but as the required punishment for breaking the new nation's laws.

Author : Luke E. Harlow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107000896

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Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 by Luke E. Harlow Pdf

This book places religious debates about slavery at the centre of American political culture before, during and after the Civil War.

Author : Kenneth Keulman
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0865544115

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Critical Moments in Religious History by Kenneth Keulman Pdf

These critical essays examine ways in which political culture interacts with the world's religions, and within the context of religious pluralism. The authors raise the issue regarding the way religion affects political modernization, and, conversely, how social and political realities may define and determine the boundaries of religion(s). Critical Moments in Religious History addresses issues of vital concern, religious and political, theological and social issues that, indeed, remain critical.

Author : William J. Cooper,Thomas E. Terrill,Christopher Childers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442262294

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The American South by William J. Cooper,Thomas E. Terrill,Christopher Childers Pdf

In The American South: A History, Fifth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr., Thomas E. Terrill, and Christopher Childers demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The authors' analysis underscores the complex interaction between the South as a distinct region and the South as an inescapable part of America. Cooper and Terrill show how the resulting tension has often propelled section and nation toward collision. In supporting their thesis, the authors draw on the tremendous amount of profoundly new scholarship in Southern history. Each volume includes a substantial bibliographical essay—completely updated for this edition—which provides the reader with a guide to literature on the history of the South. This first volume also includes updated chapters, tables, preface, and prologue.