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  • Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation?

    Reformed Evangelism and Slavery in the Ante-Bellum American South

    by Iain Whyte ...
    Examining the history of slavery in the American South, it is impossible to separate the interpretations of Christianity from the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding liberation. In Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation, Iain Whyte considers how this intertwining of ideologies impacted enslaved people and their relationship to religion. Tracing the legacy of the reformed tradition from ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora

    by Valerie Wallace, Gideon Mailer, Iain Whyte, Joseph S. Moore, William J. Roulston, Nini Rodgers, Kimberly D. Hill, Sir Tom Devine, Richard J. Finlay ...
    Series series Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
    Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery. The chapters highlight how Presbyterians’ reactions to slavery –which ranged from abolitionism, to ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Send Back the Money!

    The Free Church of Scotland and American Slavery

    by Iain Whyte ...
    'Send Back the Money!' is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church history. A seminal period of Abolition activity is exposed by Iain Whyte through a study of the fiery 'Send back the Money!' campaign named after 'the hue and cry of the day' that encapsulated the argument that divided families, communities, and the Free ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Devil of Great Island

    Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England

    by Emerson W. Baker ...
    "With deft insights, Tad Baker illuminates a supernatural mystery from seventeenth-century New England . . . a gripping tale well told." —Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorIn 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones ... Read more

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  • Frederick Douglass in Ireland

    by Laurence Fenton ...
    'When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, 'we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist, forged an unlikely friendship right here in Dublin with your great liberator, Daniel O'Connell.' Frederick Douglass arrived in Ireland in the summer ... Read more

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  • Scotch Irish Pioneers In Ulster And America

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  • John Winthrop

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  • Moral Capital

    Foundations of British Abolitionism

    by Christopher Leslie Brown ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain at the time, particularly the anxieties ... Read more

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  • Unitarianism in America

    A History of Its Origin and Development

    by George Willis Cooke ...
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    Enriched edition. A History of its Origin and Development

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  • The First American Declaration of Independence?

    The Disputed History of the Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20, 1775

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    This is a comprehensive history of one of the greatest mysteries in American history--did Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, declare independence from Great Britain more than a year before anyone else? According to local legend, on May 20, 1775, in a log court house in the remote backcountry two dozen local militia leaders met to discuss the deteriorating state of affairs in the American colonies ... Read more

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