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Political Piety: Evangelicals And The American Revolution In South Carolina And Georgia, David E. Hollingsworth
Political Piety: Evangelicals And The American Revolution In South Carolina And Georgia, David E. Hollingsworth
University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations
The study of southern evangelicals during the late colonial and revolutionary eras of American history has focused primarily on the social antagonisms that separated evangelicals from southern elites and has concluded that the rapid growth of post-war evangelicalism came as a result of evangelical acquiescence to southern gentry mores. Most study of southern evangelicals has concentrated on the upper South missing important developments in the Deep South which contradict historical assumptions of Separate triumph and the subsequent subversion of radical evangelicalism by evangelical leaders eager for societal acceptance. Evangelicals were not a monolithic movement. Key doctrines, primarily the need for …
Spirited Away: Black Evangelicals And The Gospel Of Freedom, 1790-1890, Alicestyne Turley
Spirited Away: Black Evangelicals And The Gospel Of Freedom, 1790-1890, Alicestyne Turley
University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations
The true nineteenth-century story of the Underground Railroad begins in the South and is spread North by free blacks, escaping southern slaves, and displaced, white, anti-slavery Protestant evangelicals. This study examines the role of free blacks, escaping slaves, and white Protestant evangelicals influenced by tenants of Kentucky’s Second Great Awakening who were inspired, directly or indirectly, to aid in African American community building. The impact of Kentucky’s Great Revival resulted in creation and expansion of systems of escape commonly referred to as the “Underground Railroad” which led to self-emancipation among enslaved African Americans, the establishment of free black settlements in …